How many laundries are in Saudi Arabia?
Laundries and dry cleaners.
29K
active registrations list laundries & dry cleaners activities — 2% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
28,974 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list laundries & dry cleaners activities as of 16 September 2026 — 2% of all classified registrations, the 37th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
6,770 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +29.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (7,841), Jeddah (2,800), Makkah (2,101) lead. Relative to its size, Sakaka is the most concentrated: laundries make up 1.8× the share they hold nationally.
25.9% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 28,974
- 2% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 6,770
- +29.8% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 25.9%
- 7,508 of 28,974
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where laundries are registered
Column height: laundries by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh7,8410.9×
- Jeddah2,8000.9×
- Makkah2,1011.5×
- Madinah1,4361.3×
- Dammam1,2210.9×
- Taif8991.4×
- Tabuk6431.4×
- Khobar5970.9×
- Buraydah5790.8×
- Hail5381.1×
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×.
Laundries & dry cleaners: 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
- Laundry, ironing and dry cleaning17,911Activity code 960110
- Linen and work uniform supply by laundries5,910Activity code 960130
- Carpet, rug and curtain cleaning5,153Activity code 960120
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship21,46374.1%
- LLC7,38225.5%
- JSC580.2%
- General partnership330.1%
- SJSC180.1%
- Limited partnership170.1%
- Foreign branch3<0.1%
Common questions
How many laundries are there in Saudi Arabia?
28,974 active commercial registrations list laundries & dry cleaners 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 laundries?
Riyadh, with 7,841 — 27.1% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 2,800.
Is the number of laundries growing?
6,770 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +29.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in laundries & dry cleaners 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 laundries & dry cleaners?
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