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The Alabama count fell to 255 in 2025 after 291 licenses the year before. Alabama's annual change was 12.4% down.
Alabama couples took out 338 licenses in 2007, the highest published annual count; the low was 192 in 2020.
The steepest Alabama drop came in 2020: 284 licenses became 192, a 32.4% fall.
The largest Alabama percentage rise came in 2021, as 192 licenses became 327.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 338 |
| 2008 | 282 |
| 2009 | 304 |
| 2010 | 313 |
| 2011 | 309 |
| 2012 | 276 |
| 2013 | 228 |
| 2014 | 261 |
| 2015 | 275 |
| 2016 | 286 |
| 2017 | 267 |
| 2018 | 293 |
| 2019 | 284 |
| 2020 | 192 |
| 2021 | 327 |
| 2022 | 267 |
| 2023 | 295 |
| 2024 | 291 |
| 2025 | 255 |
At least one partner had been married before on 912 recent Alabama licenses, while 523 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 36.5% of the Alabama total, 13.73 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 523 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 912 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
Partners aged 30-34 formed the biggest published age band for Alabama, at 480 people. The next Alabama age group, 25-29, contained 450 partners. For Alabama, the 30-34 age band made up 16.7% of partners, compared with 19.3% for all origins, putting it below the overall share. The third and fourth age groups from Alabama were 35-39 and 40-44, containing 421 and 385 partners respectively in the recent pooled record.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 148 |
| 25-29 | 450 |
| 30-34 | 480 |
| 35-39 | 421 |
| 40-44 | 385 |
| 45-49 | 333 |
| 50-54 | 284 |
| 55-59 | 156 |
| 60-64 | 111 |
| 65-69 | 58 |
| 70-74 | 18 |
| 75-79 | 18 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
The busiest month for Alabama couples was June, with 158 licenses and 11.0% of the recent count. The quietest published month was January at 76, 82 fewer than June. April followed with 146 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 76 |
| February | 118 |
| March | 125 |
| April | 146 |
| May | 118 |
| June | 158 |
| July | 124 |
| August | 104 |
| September | 109 |
| October | 135 |
| November | 114 |
| December | 108 |
Alabama's June share of 11.01% was above the 8.02% of all licenses issued in that month, a difference of 2.99 percentage points. Following June and April, Alabama couples collected 135 licenses in October, the third-largest published monthly group. Across June, April and October, Alabama couples collected 439 licenses, making up 30.6% of their 1,435 recent total; across all couples, those months supplied 28.1% of licenses in 2021 to 2025.
For 1,430 matched Alabama licenses, the median distance to Las Vegas was 1,621 miles in a straight line. The matched group represents 99.65% of licenses from Alabama, using postal-area centroids and unique places.
For every 100,000 adults in Alabama, there were 6.26 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 4,075,161.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for Alabama was 7.00 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 5,163,055 people gives an estimated 36,141 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 291 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in Alabama.
At home in Alabama, the ACS 2024 median age at first marriage was 29.6 for men and 27.0 for women; the respective margins of error were 0.6 and 0.5 years.
Following Alabama through the annual record gives 338 in 2007, 284 in 2019, 192 in 2020, 327 in 2021, 295 in 2023. The latest Alabama count is 10.2% below the 2019 figure, using the same address grouping. The recent Alabama total was 1,435 licenses, a 0.38% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. Alabama's share in 2025 was 0.36% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, Alabama accounted for 0.31% of Las Vegas licenses: 338 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from Alabama can prepare with the marriage license guide: the fee is $102, and both partners collect the license with their identification. For paperwork to take back to Alabama, use the certified-copy guide for the ordering steps after recording; the officiant must file within 10 days after the ceremony, and a certified certificate is $20 per copy.