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Las Vegas recorded 217 licenses from Arkansas in 2025; the previous year brought 232. Year on year, the Arkansas count moved 6.5% lower.
Arkansas couples took out 295 licenses in 2007, the highest published annual count; the low was 158 in 2020.
In 2020, the Arkansas count fell 25.8% to 158, its steepest annual percentage decline.
The sharpest Arkansas upward movement was from 158 in 2020 to 244 in 2021.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 295 |
| 2008 | 281 |
| 2009 | 260 |
| 2010 | 263 |
| 2011 | 236 |
| 2012 | 248 |
| 2013 | 229 |
| 2014 | 237 |
| 2015 | 214 |
| 2016 | 200 |
| 2017 | 222 |
| 2018 | 191 |
| 2019 | 213 |
| 2020 | 158 |
| 2021 | 244 |
| 2022 | 256 |
| 2023 | 227 |
| 2024 | 232 |
| 2025 | 217 |
At least one partner had been married before on 765 recent Arkansas licenses, while 411 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 35.0% of the Arkansas total, 15.23 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 411 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 765 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Arkansas licenses was 25-29, containing 386 partners. Arkansas's next largest band was 30-34 with 370 people. The 25-29 band represented 16.4% of partners from Arkansas, below the 16.6% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, Arkansas had 332 partners aged 35-39 and 306 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 | 137 |
| 25-29 | 386 |
| 30-34 | 370 |
| 35-39 | 332 |
| 40-44 | 306 |
| 45-49 | 287 |
| 50-54 | 228 |
| 55-59 | 132 |
| 60-64 | 91 |
| 65-69 | 46 |
| 70-74 | 23 |
| 75-79 | 10 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
For Arkansas, May and October shared the leading monthly total of 125 licenses each, or 10.6% apiece of the recent count. At the other end was January, with 63 licenses; May recorded 62 more. October followed with 125 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 63 |
| February | 82 |
| March | 118 |
| April | 102 |
| May | 125 |
| June | 107 |
| July | 94 |
| August | 81 |
| September | 105 |
| October | 125 |
| November | 95 |
| December | 79 |
For all origins combined, the May share was 9.40%; Arkansas's 10.63% was 1.23 percentage points above that countywide seasonal benchmark. Third in the Arkansas month counts was March at 118 licenses, after the leading May and October totals. Combining May, October and March gives 368 licenses from Arkansas, a 31.3% share of 1,176 recent licenses; those same months accounted for 28.1% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
For 1,175 matched Arkansas licenses, the median distance to Las Vegas was 1,279 miles in a straight line. The matched group represents 99.91% of licenses from Arkansas, using postal-area centroids and unique places.
Against 2,416,023 adult residents, Arkansas's latest license total works out at 8.98 per 100,000 adults.
Applying Arkansas's provisional CDC marriage rate of 7.90 per 1,000 residents to its 2024 Census population of 3,096,080 gives an estimated 24,459 in-state marriages. That year, Arkansas couples also took out 232 Las Vegas licenses.
Census ACS 2024 estimated median first-marriage ages in Arkansas at 27.2 for men and 25.8 for women, with margins of error of 0.7 and 0.4 years respectively.
The earlier Arkansas checkpoints were 295 in 2007, 213 in 2019, 158 in 2020, 244 in 2021, 227 in 2023. Arkansas's latest annual total was 1.9% above the count recorded in 2019. Across 2021 to 2025, Arkansas contributed 1,176 of the 375,664 countywide licenses, or 0.31%. In 2025 alone, Arkansas represented 0.31% of the 70,598 licenses from all origins. At the start of the series, Arkansas supplied 295 of 107,901 countywide licenses in 2007, a 0.27% share of that year's total.
Plan the $102 license visit
For your own visit from Arkansas, 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 Arkansas, 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.