How many car repair workshops are in Saudi Arabia?
Mechanical, electrical and body repair of motor vehicles.
79.9K
active registrations list car repair & maintenance activities — 5.5% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
79,920 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list car repair & maintenance activities as of 16 September 2026 — 5.5% of all classified registrations, the 7th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
14,866 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +9.5% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (19,134), Jeddah (8,456), Makkah (4,034) lead. Relative to its size, Ahad Rufaidah is the most concentrated: car repair workshops make up 2.3× the share they hold nationally.
23.2% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 79,920
- 5.5% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 14,866
- +9.5% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 23.2%
- 18,575 of 79,920
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where car repair workshops are registered
Column height: car repair workshops by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh19,1340.8×
- Jeddah8,4561.0×
- Makkah4,0341.0×
- Dammam3,5921.0×
- Madinah3,2691.1×
- Taif2,7031.6×
- Buraydah2,0131.0×
- Tabuk1,6391.3×
- Khamis Mushait1,5571.1×
- Khobar1,5190.9×
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 repair & maintenance: 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
- Car service and maintenance centers8,382Activity code 452023
- Car washing and lubrication8,097Activity code 452051
- Car engine repair6,777Activity code 452011
- Car mechanical, electrical, bodywork and paint repair6,706Activity code 452022
- Car polishing6,206Activity code 452052
- Car mechanical and electrical repair4,962Activity code 452021
- Car electrical repair4,911Activity code 452013
- Heavy vehicle tire repair and replacement3,738Activity code 452082
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship61,32376.7%
- LLC18,03022.6%
- JSC3700.5%
- General partnership860.1%
- SJSC540.1%
- Limited partnership33<0.1%
- Foreign branch15<0.1%
- GCC branch7<0.1%
- Other2<0.1%
Car repair & maintenance by city
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Common questions
How many car repair workshops are there in Saudi Arabia?
79,920 active commercial registrations list car repair & maintenance 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 repair workshops?
Riyadh, with 19,134 — 23.9% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 8,456.
Is the number of car repair workshops growing?
14,866 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +9.5% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in car repair & maintenance 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 repair & maintenance?
We confirm the licence conditions for your exact activity code, then take you from MISA licence to commercial registration and municipal licence.