How many road and civil engineering contractors are in Saudi Arabia?
Contractors for roads, railways, utility networks and other civil engineering projects.
73.3K
active registrations list road & civil engineering contractors activities — 5.1% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
73,272 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list road & civil engineering contractors activities as of 16 September 2026 — 5.1% of all classified registrations, the 8th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
22,907 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +59.4% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (28,436), Jeddah (9,278), Makkah (4,357) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: road and civil engineering contractors make up 1.9× the share they hold nationally.
60.2% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 73,272
- 5.1% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 22,907
- +59.4% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 60.2%
- 44,136 of 73,272
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where road and civil engineering contractors are registered
Column height: road and civil engineering contractors by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh28,4361.3×
- Jeddah9,2781.2×
- Makkah4,3571.2×
- Dammam3,9841.2×
- Jubail3,2191.5×
- Khobar3,0101.9×
- Madinah2,3980.9×
- Najran1,5610.8×
- Buraydah1,4800.8×
- Hafar Al-Batin9820.7×
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×.
Road & civil engineering contractors: 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
- Construction of roads, streets and pavements10,434Activity code 421010
- Laying conduits for electricity, telecoms and other utilities6,469Activity code 422010
- Repair and maintenance of roads, streets and pavements5,591Activity code 421051
- Repair and maintenance of water distribution stations and networks4,953Activity code 422033
- Railway construction3,488Activity code 421030
- Water pipeline and network construction3,480Activity code 422031
- Repair and maintenance of sewage plants and networks3,307Activity code 422045
- Repair and maintenance of power stations and transformers3,226Activity code 422046
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC43,22259%
- Sole proprietorship28,59539%
- JSC5700.8%
- Foreign branch4620.6%
- General partnership1410.2%
- SJSC1200.2%
- Limited partnership830.1%
- GCC branch790.1%
Common questions
How many road and civil engineering contractors are there in Saudi Arabia?
73,272 active commercial registrations list road & civil engineering contractors 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 road and civil engineering contractors?
Riyadh, with 28,436 — 38.8% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 9,278.
Is the number of road and civil engineering contractors growing?
22,907 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +59.4% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in road & civil engineering contractors 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.
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