How many plumbing and air-conditioning contractors are in Saudi Arabia?
Contractors installing plumbing, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems.
70.5K
active registrations list plumbing & air-conditioning contractors activities — 4.9% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
70,473 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list plumbing & air-conditioning contractors activities as of 16 September 2026 — 4.9% of all classified registrations, the 10th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
19,902 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +46.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (26,707), Jeddah (10,270), Makkah (4,816) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: plumbing and air-conditioning contractors make up 1.7× the share they hold nationally.
47.3% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 70,473
- 4.9% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 19,902
- +46.8% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 47.3%
- 33,311 of 70,473
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where plumbing and air-conditioning contractors are registered
Column height: plumbing and air-conditioning contractors by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh26,7071.2×
- Jeddah10,2701.3×
- Makkah4,8161.4×
- Dammam4,0411.3×
- Khobar2,6761.7×
- Madinah2,6451.0×
- Jubail1,7420.8×
- Buraydah1,2930.7×
- Taif8630.6×
- Najran8470.4×
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×.
Plumbing & air-conditioning 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
- Air conditioning and refrigeration installation and maintenance32,860Activity code 432240
- Irrigation pipe installation and maintenance7,844Activity code 432254
- Sanitary fixture installation and maintenance7,247Activity code 432230
- Fire-fighting pipe installation and maintenance6,578Activity code 432253
- Air conditioning duct installation and maintenance5,231Activity code 432260
- Steam pipe installation and maintenance4,398Activity code 432252
- Solar power system installation and maintenance3,276Activity code 432220
- Heating system installation and maintenance1,716Activity code 432210
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship36,94652.4%
- LLC32,82646.6%
- JSC2890.4%
- Foreign branch1810.3%
- SJSC810.1%
- General partnership660.1%
- Limited partnership490.1%
- GCC branch35<0.1%
Common questions
How many plumbing and air-conditioning contractors are there in Saudi Arabia?
70,473 active commercial registrations list plumbing & air-conditioning 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 plumbing and air-conditioning contractors?
Riyadh, with 26,707 — 37.9% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 10,270.
Is the number of plumbing and air-conditioning contractors growing?
19,902 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +46.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in plumbing & air-conditioning 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.
Starting a business in plumbing & air-conditioning contractors?
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