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The Alaska count fell to 141 in 2025 after 164 licenses the year before. Alaska's annual change was 14.0% down.
At the top of the Alaska series is 2008, with 265 licenses; 2020 sits at the bottom with 76.
The steepest Alaska drop came in 2020: 178 licenses became 76, a 57.3% fall.
The largest Alaska percentage rise came in 2021, as 76 licenses became 168.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 244 |
| 2008 | 265 |
| 2009 | 218 |
| 2010 | 239 |
| 2011 | 239 |
| 2012 | 198 |
| 2013 | 195 |
| 2014 | 218 |
| 2015 | 210 |
| 2016 | 219 |
| 2017 | 148 |
| 2018 | 136 |
| 2019 | 178 |
| 2020 | 76 |
| 2021 | 168 |
| 2022 | 196 |
| 2023 | 185 |
| 2024 | 164 |
| 2025 | 141 |
The Alaska journey had a straight-line median of 2,285 miles, calculated from 851 matched home locations. Postal-area or unique-place matches supplied distances for 99.65% of the Alaska group.
The Alaska month counts peaked in October with 112 licenses, representing 13.1% of recent licenses. Monthly volume bottomed out at 45 in June, a difference of 67 from the October peak. April followed with 88 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 53 |
| February | 74 |
| March | 79 |
| April | 88 |
| May | 82 |
| June | 45 |
| July | 54 |
| August | 62 |
| September | 58 |
| October | 112 |
| November | 79 |
| December | 68 |
For Alaska, October's 13.11% share stood 2.78 percentage points above the 10.33% recorded in that month across all couples. The next strongest Alaska month was May with 82 licenses, completing the leading monthly group after October and April. Adding October, April and May brings the leading three months to 282 Alaska licenses, or 33.0% of the 854 recent total; those same months accounted for 29.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
The recent Alaska group includes 339 couples marrying for the first time and 515 with a previous marriage for at least one partner. The first-wedding share for Alaska was 39.7%, compared with 50.2% across all origins, a gap of 10.48 percentage points below that benchmark.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 339 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 515 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Alaska licenses was 30-34, containing 278 partners. Alaska's next largest band was 25-29 with 275 people. The 30-34 band represented 16.3% of partners from Alaska, below the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, Alaska had 248 partners aged 35-39 and 224 aged 40-44, the next two largest published groups in descending order.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 106 |
| 25-29 | 275 |
| 30-34 | 278 |
| 35-39 | 248 |
| 40-44 | 224 |
| 45-49 | 178 |
| 50-54 | 156 |
| 55-59 | 107 |
| 60-64 | 74 |
| 65-69 | 34 |
| 70-74 | 16 |
| 75-79 | fewer than 10 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
The latest Alaska total corresponds to 24.93 licenses per 100,000 adults, using the Census count of 565,570 adults.
The state-occurrence estimate for Alaska is 4,861 marriages in 2024, using 736,537 residents and a provisional CDC rate of 6.60 per 1,000. For comparison, the Las Vegas Alaska count in that year was 164 licenses.
Census ACS 2024 estimated median first-marriage ages in Alaska at 28.3 for men and 25.5 for women, with margins of error of 3.2 and 0.8 years respectively.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Anchorage municipality | 362 |
The earlier Alaska checkpoints were 244 in 2007, 178 in 2019, 76 in 2020, 168 in 2021, 185 in 2023. By 2025, Alaska's count stood 20.8% below its 2019 level. Across 2021 to 2025, Alaska contributed 854 of the 375,664 countywide licenses, or 0.23%. In 2025 alone, Alaska represented 0.20% of the 70,598 licenses from all origins. At the start of the series, Alaska supplied 244 of 107,901 countywide licenses in 2007, a 0.23% share of that year's total.
Plan the $102 license visit
For your own visit from Alaska, budget $102 for the license and bring the identification listed in the marriage license guide; both partners attend to collect it. To obtain a certificate to take home to Alaska, allow for the officiant's filing stage, with a deadline of 10 days after the ceremony, then follow the certified-copy guide for the $20 certified certificate once the marriage is recorded.