How many tailors and garment makers are in Saudi Arabia?
Tailoring and manufacture of clothing.
29.1K
active registrations list tailoring & garment makers activities — 2% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
29,076 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list tailoring & garment makers activities as of 16 September 2026 — 2% of all classified registrations, the 36th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
4,464 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -2.2% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (7,676), Jeddah (2,825), Makkah (1,617) lead. Relative to its size, Sharurah is the most concentrated: tailors and garment makers make up 2.2× the share they hold nationally.
18.4% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 29,076
- 2% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 4,464
- -2.2% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 18.4%
- 5,337 of 29,076
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where tailors and garment makers are registered
Column height: tailors and garment makers by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh7,6760.9×
- Jeddah2,8250.9×
- Makkah1,6171.1×
- Madinah1,5081.3×
- Dammam1,0990.9×
- Taif1,0131.6×
- Khobar7221.1×
- Buraydah6540.9×
- Tabuk6361.4×
- Khamis Mushait5911.2×
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×.
Tailoring & garment makers: 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
- Tailoring of Arabic men's garments11,102Activity code 141040
- Women's tailoring workshops8,881Activity code 141060
- Tailoring of non-Arabic men's garments2,009Activity code 141050
- Work uniform tailoring1,817Activity code 141083
- Women's ready-made clothing manufacturing1,141Activity code 141021
- Industrial safety clothing tailoring897Activity code 141082
- Men's ready-made clothing manufacturing667Activity code 141011
- Sportswear tailoring591Activity code 141070
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship23,73681.6%
- LLC5,24918.1%
- JSC330.1%
- SJSC260.1%
- General partnership150.1%
- Limited partnership14<0.1%
- Foreign branch3<0.1%
Common questions
How many tailors and garment makers are there in Saudi Arabia?
29,076 active commercial registrations list tailoring & garment makers 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 tailors and garment makers?
Riyadh, with 7,676 — 26.4% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 2,825.
Is the number of tailors and garment makers growing?
4,464 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -2.2% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in tailoring & garment makers 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 tailoring & garment makers?
We confirm the licence conditions for your exact activity code, then take you from MISA licence to commercial registration and municipal licence.