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The latest annual total for Colorado is 920, compared with 908 in 2024. For Colorado, this represents a 1.3% increase.
The largest yearly group from Colorado numbered 2,024 in 2007. Its smallest published group was 744 in 2020.
For Colorado, the biggest year-on-year percentage fall was between 2019 and 2020: 1,023 to 744 licenses.
The biggest annual percentage increase for Colorado was 63.7% in 2021, ending at 1,218 licenses.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 2,024 |
| 2008 | 1,687 |
| 2009 | 1,608 |
| 2010 | 1,465 |
| 2011 | 1,411 |
| 2012 | 1,344 |
| 2013 | 1,143 |
| 2014 | 1,193 |
| 2015 | 1,276 |
| 2016 | 1,181 |
| 2017 | 1,224 |
| 2018 | 1,086 |
| 2019 | 1,023 |
| 2020 | 744 |
| 2021 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | 1,126 |
| 2023 | 1,012 |
| 2024 | 908 |
| 2025 | 920 |
First marriages for both partners numbered 2,416 in the Colorado group, alongside 2,768 couples in which someone had married before. Colorado's both-first-marriage share reached 46.6%, or 3.58 percentage points below the 50.2% across all couples.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 2,416 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 2,768 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
In the Colorado age counts, 1,965 partners fell in the leading 30-34 band. Following that band, Colorado had 1,761 partners aged 25-29. Compared with 19.3% across all origins, Colorado recorded 18.9% of partners in its 30-34 age band, a share below the countywide figure. Compared with the countywide 42.7%, Colorado had a lower under-35 share of 42.5%. Further down the Colorado age distribution, 35-39 accounted for 1,643 people and 40-44 for 1,308, giving those bands the third and fourth positions by published count.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | 34 |
| 20-24 | 645 |
| 25-29 | 1,761 |
| 30-34 | 1,965 |
| 35-39 | 1,643 |
| 40-44 | 1,308 |
| 45-49 | 1,019 |
| 50-54 | 823 |
| 55-59 | 535 |
| 60-64 | 354 |
| 65-69 | 146 |
| 70-74 | 90 |
| 75-79 | 27 |
| 80-84 | withheld |
| 90-94 | fewer than 10 |
For Colorado, October led the monthly totals at 595 licenses, accounting for 11.5% of the period. By comparison, January brought 225 licenses, the lowest published monthly total and 370 below October. May followed with 523 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 225 |
| February | 395 |
| March | 430 |
| April | 493 |
| May | 523 |
| June | 464 |
| July | 485 |
| August | 418 |
| September | 432 |
| October | 595 |
| November | 371 |
| December | 353 |
Compared with 10.33% across all origins, October contributed 11.48% of Colorado licenses, putting its share 1.15 percentage points above the countywide figure. The third monthly position for Colorado went to April, contributing 493 licenses behind October and May. The leading months, October, May and April, together accounted for 1,611 Colorado licenses, representing 31.1% of the 5,184 recent count; those same months accounted for 29.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
Couples from Colorado had a median matched distance of 609 straight-line miles to Las Vegas, with matches for 5,181 licenses. Matching covered 99.94% of recent Colorado licenses, using home postal-area or place centroids.
On a population scale, Colorado recorded 19.20 licenses per 100,000 adults; the denominator is 4,792,358 adult residents.
Colorado's 2024 population was 5,988,502; with the provisional CDC rate of 8.10 per 1,000, that yields an estimated 48,507 marriages performed there. Las Vegas separately recorded 908 licenses with Colorado addresses that year.
The 2024 ACS puts Colorado's median first-marriage age at 30.8 among men and 28.6 among women, subject to margins of 0.5 and 0.5 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Denver city | 873 |
| Colorado Springs city | 581 |
| Aurora city | 452 |
The Colorado series includes 2,024 in 2007, 1,023 in 2019, 744 in 2020, 1,218 in 2021, 1,012 in 2023 along the way. The latest Colorado count is 10.1% below the 2019 figure, using the same address grouping. Colorado's 5,184 licenses made up 1.38% of the 375,664 countywide count across 2021 to 2025. Looking only at 2025, 1.30% of the county's 70,598 licenses came from Colorado. In 2007, 2,024 licenses from Colorado made up 1.88% of 107,901 across the county, giving an earlier point for its share of total demand.
Plan the $102 license visit
Planning a Las Vegas wedding from Colorado starts with the $102 license and the joint collection visit described in the marriage license guide. The certificate you take home to Colorado costs $20 a copy, ordered after recording; allow for the officiant's 10-day filing deadline after the ceremony, then follow the certified-copy guide for the ordering routes and information to have ready.