How many car parts shops are in Saudi Arabia?
Retailers and wholesalers of vehicle parts and accessories.
43.1K
active registrations list car parts & accessories activities — 3% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
43,124 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list car parts & accessories activities as of 16 September 2026 — 3% of all classified registrations, the 27th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
7,104 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -7.5% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (13,599), Jeddah (6,891), Dammam (2,260) lead. Relative to its size, Jeddah is the most concentrated: car parts shops make up 1.5× the share they hold nationally.
36.1% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 43,124
- 3% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 7,104
- -7.5% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 36.1%
- 15,560 of 43,124
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where car parts shops are registered
Column height: car parts shops by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh13,5991.0×
- Jeddah6,8911.5×
- Dammam2,2601.2×
- Makkah2,1491.0×
- Madinah1,4560.9×
- Buraydah9680.9×
- Taif8540.9×
- Khobar8520.9×
- Najran8420.7×
- Khamis Mushait8191.1×
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×.
Car parts & accessories: 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
- Wholesale and retail of new car parts and accessories17,488Activity code 453011
- Wholesale and retail of car tires and accessories10,803Activity code 453020
- Wholesale and retail of used car parts and accessories4,662Activity code 453012
- Wholesale and retail of vehicle batteries and spark plugs4,395Activity code 453031
- Wholesale and retail of truck and heavy vehicle parts4,052Activity code 453032
- Wholesale and retail of electric vehicle chargers1,722Activity code 453033
- Wholesale and retail of other vehicle parts and accessories2Activity code 453090
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship27,55263.9%
- LLC15,08135%
- JSC3220.7%
- General partnership670.2%
- SJSC500.1%
- Limited partnership400.1%
- GCC branch9<0.1%
- Foreign branch3<0.1%
Car parts & accessories by city
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Common questions
How many car parts shops are there in Saudi Arabia?
43,124 active commercial registrations list car parts & accessories 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 car parts shops?
Riyadh, with 13,599 — 31.5% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 6,891.
Is the number of car parts shops growing?
7,104 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -7.5% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in car parts & accessories 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 car parts & accessories?
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