How many site preparation and demolition contractors are in Saudi Arabia?
Contractors clearing, excavating and preparing sites, and demolishing structures.
86.7K
active registrations list site preparation & demolition activities — 6% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
86,657 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list site preparation & demolition activities as of 16 September 2026 — 6% of all classified registrations, the 5th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
35,220 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +82.4% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (30,786), Jeddah (9,482), Najran (5,933) lead. Relative to its size, Najran is the most concentrated: site preparation and demolition contractors make up 2.5× the share they hold nationally.
57.6% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 20,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 86,657
- 6% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 35,220
- +82.4% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 57.6%
- 49,903 of 86,657
- Median company capital
- SAR 20k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where site preparation and demolition contractors are registered
Column height: site preparation and demolition contractors by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh30,7861.2×
- Jeddah9,4821.0×
- Najran5,9332.5×
- Makkah5,4371.3×
- Jubail4,6911.8×
- Dammam3,9551.0×
- Khobar2,5361.3×
- Madinah2,5280.8×
- Hafar Al-Batin2,0701.3×
- Buraydah1,4590.7×
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×.
Site preparation & demolition: 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
- Demolition of buildings and other structures36,268Activity code 431101
- Groundwater extraction and site dewatering18,873Activity code 431230
- Pouring footings and foundations13,639Activity code 431220
- Site preparation, excavation and leveling11,299Activity code 431210
- Rock cutting with explosives6,578Activity code 431240
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC49,27456.9%
- Sole proprietorship36,54642.2%
- JSC3230.4%
- Foreign branch1810.2%
- General partnership1270.1%
- SJSC1130.1%
- Limited partnership660.1%
- GCC branch27<0.1%
Common questions
How many site preparation and demolition contractors are there in Saudi Arabia?
86,657 active commercial registrations list site preparation & demolition 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 site preparation and demolition contractors?
Riyadh, with 30,786 — 35.5% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 9,482.
Is the number of site preparation and demolition contractors growing?
35,220 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +82.4% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in site preparation & demolition 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 site preparation & demolition?
We confirm the licence conditions for your exact activity code, then take you from MISA licence to commercial registration and municipal licence.