Al-Jouf Region in official figures
Population, income, prices, real estate, business and card spending on one page, each figure with its source and date, compared with Saudi Arabia. The level here is the whole administrative region, except population and card spending, which are by city.
Al-Jouf Region · population in the 2022 census
0.60 million people
1.9% of the population of Saudi Arabia · 73.9% of them Saudi
What this means for your decisionIn Al-Jouf Region: household income is lower than the Saudi average, prices are rising faster than nationally, and the real estate price index is higher than a year ago. Figures for the whole region, not for any particular city.
Source: GASTAT, Census 2022 (retrieved ) and population estimates (retrieved ). Full attribution under the population section.
Population Census 2022 · regional estimates to 2022
Population of Al-Jouf Region in the 2022 census: 595,822 people, of whom 440,264 Saudi and 155,558 non-Saudi. The revised estimates for the region stop at 2022; for Saudi Arabia alone there is an estimate for 2024: 35,300,280 people, with no matching figure published for the region.
Largest observed cities in the region
| City | City population | Governorate population | Share of the region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sakaka | 204,174 | 236,669 | 34.3% |
| Al-Qurayyat | 167,080 | 195,016 | 28.0% |
| Tabarjal | 78,354 | 109,796 | 13.2% |
The cities here are the region’s cities that SAMA covers in its point-of-sale data, matched to the census in data/city_region_map.csv. The region’s other governorates are not shown by name.
What this means for your decisionThe region holds 1.9% of the population of Saudi Arabia. Any “per person” figure below divides by the population of the whole region, not of a particular city.
Source: General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Saudi Arabia — Census of Saudi Arabia 2022 and population estimates by administrative region, the official source of the original data. DataPulse organised the data and made calculations on it (such as percentage changes and regrouping). This processing and its results are ours; they are not an official statistic issued by GASTAT and do not imply its endorsement.
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The attribution statement in Arabic (the Arabic text governs; the English above is a summary)
المصدر: الهيئة العامة للإحصاء (المملكة العربية السعودية) — تعداد السعودية 2022 والتقديرات السكانية حسب المنطقة الإدارية، وهي المصدر الرسمي للبيانات الأصلية. أجرت «نبض البيانات» على البيانات تنظيمًا وحسابًا (مثل: حساب نسب التغيّر وإعادة التجميع). هذه المعالجة والنتائج من إعدادنا وليست إحصاءً رسميًا صادرًا عن الهيئة، ولا تعني تزكية منها.
شروط إعادة الاستخدام: سياسة استخدام بيانات الهيئة. لا نستخدم شعار الهيئة ولا علاماتها.
Household income and spending Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2024 · SAR a month
One-year survey Figures from a single survey for 2024, not an annual series; they cannot be used to measure a trend.
| Measure (SAR a month) | Al-Jouf Region | Saudi Arabia | Difference from Saudi Arabia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average household disposable income | 10,686 | 11,839 | −9.7% |
| Median household disposable income | 7,395 | 7,362 | +0.4% |
| Average household consumption spending | 9,872 | 10,884 | −9.3% |
| Average disposable income per person | 2,379 | 3,195 | −25.5% |
| Average income of Saudi households | 14,712 | 18,056 | −18.5% |
| Average income of non-Saudi households | 3,517 | 5,428 | −35.2% |
“Difference from Saudi Arabia”: how much the region’s figure is above or below Saudi Arabia’s, relative to Saudi Arabia’s figure. Data retrieved from the GASTAT database on .
What this means for your decisionAverage household disposable income here is lower than in Saudi Arabia by 9.7%, and average household spending is lower by 9.3%.
Source: General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Saudi Arabia — Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2024, the official source of the original data. DataPulse organised the data and made calculations on it (such as percentage changes and regrouping). This processing and its results are ours; they are not an official statistic issued by GASTAT and do not imply its endorsement.
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The attribution statement in Arabic (the Arabic text governs; the English above is a summary)
المصدر: الهيئة العامة للإحصاء (المملكة العربية السعودية) — مسح دخل وإنفاق الأسرة 2024، وهي المصدر الرسمي للبيانات الأصلية. أجرت «نبض البيانات» على البيانات تنظيمًا وحسابًا (مثل: حساب نسب التغيّر وإعادة التجميع). هذه المعالجة والنتائج من إعدادنا وليست إحصاءً رسميًا صادرًا عن الهيئة، ولا تعني تزكية منها.
شروط إعادة الاستخدام: سياسة استخدام بيانات الهيئة. لا نستخدم شعار الهيئة ولا علاماتها.
Prices Consumer price index ·
Change vs. the same month last year, for the general index and for the four largest divisions in the region’s household spending basket (their share from the 2023 household expenditure survey).
| Division | Share of the region’s basket | Al-Jouf Region | Saudi Arabia |
|---|---|---|---|
| General index | Whole basket | +4.3% | +1.8% |
| Food and non-alcoholic beverages | 34.2% | +3.6% | +1.4% |
| Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels | 13.5% | +7.8% | +3.9% |
| Restaurants and accommodation | 10.8% | +3.9% | +1.4% |
| Transport | 10.7% | +2.8% | +2.0% |
GASTAT published the figures for on . Basket shares from the 2023 household expenditure survey, published . Base year 2023 (set to one hundred). Details: Consumer prices by region.
What this means for your decisionThe general consumer price index in the region changed +4.3% over a year, against +1.8% for Saudi Arabia.
Source: General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Saudi Arabia — Consumer Price Index and Household Expenditure Survey 2023, the official source of the original data. The figures are shown as GASTAT published them, reorganised for display. This processing and its results are ours; they are not an official statistic issued by GASTAT and do not imply its endorsement.
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The attribution statement in Arabic (the Arabic text governs; the English above is a summary)
المصدر: الهيئة العامة للإحصاء (المملكة العربية السعودية) — الرقم القياسي لأسعار المستهلك ومسح إنفاق الأسرة 2023، وهي المصدر الرسمي للبيانات الأصلية. تُعرض الأرقام كما نشرتها الهيئة، مع إعادة تنظيم للعرض. هذه المعالجة والنتائج من إعدادنا وليست إحصاءً رسميًا صادرًا عن الهيئة، ولا تعني تزكية منها.
شروط إعادة الاستخدام: سياسة استخدام بيانات الهيئة. لا نستخدم شعار الهيئة ولا علاماتها.
Real estate prices Real estate price index ·
An indicator of price change, not a property valuation. It measures the direction of prices, not the price or value of any particular property.
| Index | Index value | vs. previous quarter | vs. same quarter last year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Jouf Region — general index (all types) | 107.0 | +11.9% | +10.4% |
| Saudi Arabia — general index | 106.3 | +3.0% | +1.3% |
| Saudi Arabia — residential | 104.2 | +3.7% | +2.6% |
| Saudi Arabia — commercial | 112.0 | +1.0% | −3.2% |
GASTAT publishes only the general index for the region; the residential and commercial split is published for Saudi Arabia only, so the last two rows are for Saudi Arabia, not the region. GASTAT published the quarter’s figures on .
What this means for your decisionThe real estate price index in the region changed +10.4% vs. the same quarter last year, against +1.3% for Saudi Arabia. An indicator of price change, not a property valuation.
Source: General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Saudi Arabia — Real Estate Price Index, the official source of the original data. The figures are shown as GASTAT published them, reorganised for display. This processing and its results are ours; they are not an official statistic issued by GASTAT and do not imply its endorsement.
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The attribution statement in Arabic (the Arabic text governs; the English above is a summary)
المصدر: الهيئة العامة للإحصاء (المملكة العربية السعودية) — الرقم القياسي لأسعار العقارات، وهي المصدر الرسمي للبيانات الأصلية. تُعرض الأرقام كما نشرتها الهيئة، مع إعادة تنظيم للعرض. هذه المعالجة والنتائج من إعدادنا وليست إحصاءً رسميًا صادرًا عن الهيئة، ولا تعني تزكية منها.
شروط إعادة الاستخدام: سياسة استخدام بيانات الهيئة. لا نستخدم شعار الهيئة ولا علاماتها.
Business registrations New individual establishments · to 2023
Latest year published: 2023 The number of new individual establishments (sole proprietorships) registered in the year. Companies are not published by region.
| Year | Al-Jouf Region | Saudi Arabia | Region’s share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4,422 | 277,519 | 1.6% |
| 2022 | 5,259 | 282,320 | 1.9% |
| 2021 | 4,783 | 265,963 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 3,473 | 205,840 | 1.7% |
| 2019 | 3,593 | 229,256 | 1.6% |
Source: Ministry of Commerce (new individual establishments registered each year), as republished by the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), attributed to them; retrieved . Shares and changes are DataPulse calculations.
What this means for your decisionThe region registered 1.6% of the new individual establishments in Saudi Arabia in 2023; its share of the population is 1.9%.
Card spending in the region’s cities SAMA · · SAR million
Value of point-of-sale transactions in each city SAMA covers in the region, compared with the same month last year. Each city opens its page.
| City | SAR million | vs. last year | Share of the region’s cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sakaka | 365.9 | +1.2% | 56.4% |
| Al-Qurayyat | 186.3 | +3.1% | 28.7% |
| Tabarjal | 96.1 | −3.4% | 14.8% |
The total of the observed cities is not the spending of the whole region: smaller cities fall under “other cities” at SAMA and are not assigned to a region. Figures are before adjusting for inflation, cover cards only (no cash), and the city is where the payment terminal is, not where the buyer lives.
Source: Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), monthly point-of-sale statistics (transaction value), latest month published , updated here on . Attributed to SAMA; the analysis is ours.
What this means for your decisionTotal card spending of the region’s observed cities changed +1.0% vs. the same month last year, against +5.0% for Saudi Arabia.
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Dates from the DataPulse calendar, which gives the source of each date and its measured effect on spending. These are dates for all of Saudi Arabia; their effect on this region alone has not been measured here.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the population of Al-Jouf Region?
595,822 people in the 2022 census, i.e. 1.9% of the population of Saudi Arabia (GASTAT). - What is the average household income in Al-Jouf Region?
SAR 10,686 a month average household disposable income, against SAR 11,839 for Saudi Arabia (Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2024, GASTAT). - What is the inflation rate in Al-Jouf Region?
+4.3% in vs. the same month last year, against +1.8% for Saudi Arabia (GASTAT).
What this page does not know
- Rents and transaction prices are not available here. The real estate index measures the change in prices, not their level, and is not a property valuation.
- The level is the region, not the city. Income, prices, real estate and registrations are figures for the whole of Al-Jouf Region, and we do not estimate any city’s figure from them. Only population and card spending are by city.
- The residential and commercial split of real estate is published for Saudi Arabia only.
- Regional population estimates stop at 2022, income is a single-year survey (2024), and registrations cover individual establishments only, the latest year being 2023.
- Card spending does not include cash, and does not cover the region’s cities that SAMA does not observe.
- Date of each source: Census 2022 (retrieved ) · population estimates to 2022 (retrieved ) · income survey 2024 (retrieved ) · consumer prices (published ) · real estate (published ) · registrations 2023 (retrieved ) · SAMA (updated ).
How we read these sources: Methodology. All regions.