How many barbers and beauty salons are in Saudi Arabia?
Men's barbers, women's salons and children's salons.
59.4K
active registrations list barbers & beauty salons activities — 4.1% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
59,355 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list barbers & beauty salons activities as of 16 September 2026 — 4.1% of all classified registrations, the 15th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
13,734 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +24.3% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (14,882), Jeddah (6,463), Makkah (3,876) lead. Relative to its size, Ahad Al-Masarihah is the most concentrated: barbers and beauty salons make up 1.6× the share they hold nationally.
18.5% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 59,355
- 4.1% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 13,734
- +24.3% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 18.5%
- 11,000 of 59,355
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where barbers and beauty salons are registered
Column height: barbers and beauty salons by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh14,8820.8×
- Jeddah6,4631.0×
- Makkah3,8761.3×
- Madinah2,9241.3×
- Dammam2,4250.9×
- Taif1,8521.4×
- Khobar1,3521.0×
- Tabuk1,3201.4×
- Khamis Mushait1,2551.2×
- Buraydah1,1660.8×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Barbers & beauty salons: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Men's barbershops31,185Activity code 960220
- Women's salons17,521Activity code 960210
- Children's salons10,647Activity code 960230
- Other beauty activities2Activity code 960290
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship48,34081.4%
- LLC10,90118.4%
- JSC380.1%
- General partnership310.1%
- SJSC21<0.1%
- Limited partnership9<0.1%
- Foreign branch8<0.1%
- GCC branch7<0.1%
Common questions
How many barbers and beauty salons are there in Saudi Arabia?
59,355 active commercial registrations list barbers & beauty salons activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most barbers and beauty salons?
Riyadh, with 14,882 — 25.1% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 6,463.
Is the number of barbers and beauty salons growing?
13,734 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +24.3% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in barbers & beauty salons in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
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 16 September 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 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in barbers & beauty salons?
We confirm the licence conditions for your exact activity code, then take you from MISA licence to commercial registration and municipal licence.