How many car dealers are in Khobar?
New and used vehicle dealers. Figures for Khobar, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.
258
active registrations in Khobar — 8th among Saudi cities.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
Khobar has 258 active commercial registrations listing car dealers activities as of 16 September 2026 — 2% of the Kingdom's total and the 8th-most of any city.
Car dealers account for 0.8% of Khobar's classified registrations, close to their 0.9% share nationally.
Across the Eastern Province as a whole there are 1,602.
- Car dealers in Khobar
- 258
- 2% of the Kingdom
- City rank
- 8 of 69
- Cities with registrations in the sector
- Concentration
- 0.9×
- Close to the national average
- Nationally
- 12,754
- 0.9% of classified registrations
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Common questions
How many car dealers are there in Khobar?
258 active commercial registrations in Khobar list car dealers activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).
How does Khobar compare with other cities?
Khobar ranks 8th of 69 cities for car dealers, with 2% of the national total.
How do I set up in car dealers in Khobar?
Confirm the activity code and its licence conditions, obtain a MISA investment licence (for foreign owners), register the company with the Ministry of Commerce, then get the municipal (Balady) licence for your premises in Khobar. Alpha Consultancy runs the whole sequence.
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.
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