How many companies are in Yanbu?
Active commercial registrations in Yanbu by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Madinah region.
13.1K
active commercial registrations — 13.9% of the Madinah region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Yanbu has 13,077 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 13.9% of the Madinah region and 0.7% of Saudi Arabia, the 20th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 11,689 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 1,380 are companies, and 8 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
367 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.5%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 93.9% of companies in Yanbu and 51.1% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 50k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 13,077
- 13.9% of the Madinah region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 367
- 10.4% of the Madinah region
- Companies
- 1,380
- 11,689 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Yanbu
Still-active CRs by the quarter they were created. Cancelled registrations are excluded, so earlier quarters read lower.
Business structures
Active registrations by legal form
- Sole proprietorship11,68989.4%
- LLC1,2969.9%
- General partnership550.4%
- JSC190.1%
- Limited partnership90.1%
- Foreign branch80.1%
- SJSC1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 1,070 companies with their main registration in Yanbu
- Under SAR 10k29527.6%
- SAR 10k–100k32130%
- SAR 100k–500k23221.7%
- SAR 500k–5m999.3%
- SAR 5m+12311.5%
Company variants
Share of all 1,380 companies
- Single-person companies70551.1%
- Holding companies926.7%
- Professional companies282%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Yanbu?
Yanbu has 13,077 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 1,380 companies and 11,689 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Yanbu in Q2 2026?
367 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Yanbu?
SAR 50k. Among companies registered in Yanbu, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 200k.
How do I register a company in Yanbu?
Foreign investors first obtain a MISA investment licence, then the Ministry of Commerce issues the commercial registration (CR), followed by municipal licensing, Chamber of Commerce membership, ZATCA, GOSI and Qiwa registration. Alpha Consultancy runs the full process for companies setting up in Yanbu.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 30 June 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 30 June 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
The Ministry's extract is dated 30 June 2026; it was taken at the start of that day, so registrations created on the reference date itself are not included.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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