How many furniture and home goods shops are in Saudi Arabia?
Retailers of furniture, appliances, lighting and household goods.
52.3K
active registrations list furniture & home goods shops activities — 3.6% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
52,268 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list furniture & home goods shops activities as of 16 September 2026 — 3.6% of all classified registrations, the 22nd-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
7,885 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -7.6% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (15,445), Jeddah (9,400), Makkah (3,966) lead. Relative to its size, Jeddah is the most concentrated: furniture and home goods shops make up 1.6× the share they hold nationally.
35.2% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 52,268
- 3.6% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 7,885
- -7.6% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 35.2%
- 18,414 of 52,268
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where furniture and home goods shops are registered
Column height: furniture and home goods shops by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh15,4451.0×
- Jeddah9,4001.6×
- Makkah3,9661.5×
- Dammam2,6011.1×
- Madinah2,1851.1×
- Khobar1,4551.3×
- Buraydah1,0020.8×
- Tabuk9821.2×
- Taif9770.9×
- Khamis Mushait9371.0×
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×.
Furniture & home goods shops: 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
- Retail of household electronics and appliances17,505Activity code 475921
- Retail of household furniture11,087Activity code 475910
- Retail of chandeliers and lighting products5,195Activity code 475940
- Retail of wood, cork and plastic products4,759Activity code 475924
- Retail of household goods and handicrafts4,263Activity code 475930
- Retail of safety, fire-fighting and industrial security equipment3,717Activity code 475980
- Retail of water tanks and accessories1,889Activity code 475970
- Retail of TV receivers1,351Activity code 475923
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship33,83764.7%
- LLC17,41633.3%
- JSC8671.7%
- SJSC500.1%
- General partnership440.1%
- Limited partnership370.1%
- GCC branch14<0.1%
- Foreign branch3<0.1%
Furniture & home goods shops by city
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Common questions
How many furniture and home goods shops are there in Saudi Arabia?
52,268 active commercial registrations list furniture & home goods shops 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 furniture and home goods shops?
Riyadh, with 15,445 — 29.5% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 9,400.
Is the number of furniture and home goods shops growing?
7,885 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -7.6% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in furniture & home goods shops 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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