How many clothing and shoe shops are in Hofuf?
Retailers of clothing, footwear and leather goods. Figures for Hofuf, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.
727
active registrations in Hofuf — 12th among Saudi cities.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
Hofuf has 727 active commercial registrations listing clothing & shoe shops activities as of 16 September 2026 — 1.3% of the Kingdom's total and the 12th-most of any city.
Clothing & shoe shops account for 4.8% of Hofuf's classified registrations, 1.2× their share nationally — a city where the sector is unusually concentrated.
Across the Eastern Province as a whole there are 7,108.
- Clothing & shoe shops in Hofuf
- 727
- 1.3% of the Kingdom
- City rank
- 12 of 69
- Cities with registrations in the sector
- Concentration
- 1.2×
- Above the national average
- Nationally
- 57,300
- 4% of classified registrations
Clothing & shoe shops: leading cities
Hofuf highlighted
Common questions
How many clothing and shoe shops are there in Hofuf?
727 active commercial registrations in Hofuf list clothing & shoe shops activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).
How does Hofuf compare with other cities?
Hofuf ranks 12th of 69 cities for clothing and shoe shops, with 1.3% of the national total.
How do I set up in clothing & shoe shops in Hofuf?
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 Hofuf. 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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