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Las Vegas recorded 94 licenses from Delaware in 2025; the previous year brought 103. Year on year, the Delaware count moved 8.7% lower.
The annual record for Delaware ranges from 82 in 2011 to 148 in 2007.
In 2011, the Delaware count fell 24.8% to 82, its steepest annual percentage decline.
The sharpest Delaware upward movement was from 94 in 2020 to 136 in 2021.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 148 |
| 2008 | 129 |
| 2009 | 111 |
| 2010 | 109 |
| 2011 | 82 |
| 2012 | 102 |
| 2013 | 88 |
| 2014 | 113 |
| 2015 | 96 |
| 2016 | 92 |
| 2017 | 86 |
| 2018 | 84 |
| 2019 | 93 |
| 2020 | 94 |
| 2021 | 136 |
| 2022 | 114 |
| 2023 | 89 |
| 2024 | 103 |
| 2025 | 94 |
The Delaware journey had a straight-line median of 2,159 miles, calculated from 535 matched home locations. Postal-area or unique-place matches supplied distances for 99.81% of the Delaware group.
For Delaware, February and September shared the leading monthly total of 57 licenses each, or 10.6% apiece of the recent count. At the other end was January, with 29 licenses; February recorded 28 more. September followed with 57 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 29 |
| February | 57 |
| March | 32 |
| April | 55 |
| May | 46 |
| June | 34 |
| July | 42 |
| August | 52 |
| September | 57 |
| October | 51 |
| November | 42 |
| December | 39 |
For all origins combined, the February share was 7.92%; Delaware's 10.63% was 2.71 percentage points above that countywide seasonal benchmark. Third in the Delaware month counts was April at 55 licenses, after the leading February and September totals. Combining February, September and April gives 169 licenses from Delaware, a 31.5% share of 536 recent licenses; those same months accounted for 26.7% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
The recent Delaware group includes 211 couples marrying for the first time and 325 with a previous marriage for at least one partner. The first-wedding share for Delaware was 39.4%, compared with 50.2% across all origins, a gap of 10.81 percentage points below that benchmark.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 211 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 325 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Delaware licenses was 30-34, containing 168 partners. Delaware's next largest band was 40-44 with 162 people. The 30-34 band represented 15.7% of partners from Delaware, below the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, Delaware had 146 partners aged 35-39 and 140 aged 25-29, the next two largest published groups in descending order.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 35 |
| 25-29 | 140 |
| 30-34 | 168 |
| 35-39 | 146 |
| 40-44 | 162 |
| 45-49 | 126 |
| 50-54 | 127 |
| 55-59 | 76 |
| 60-64 | 46 |
| 65-69 | 22 |
| 70-74 | 15 |
| 75-79 | fewer than 10 |
Delaware had 11.06 Las Vegas licenses per 100,000 adults in 2025, based on 849,963 Census adult residents.
For 2024, an estimated 5,146 marriages were performed in Delaware, calculated from the provisional CDC rate of 4.90 per 1,000 and population 1,050,123. The same year brought 103 Las Vegas licenses from Delaware.
For first marriages in Delaware, ACS 2024 reports medians of 31.1 years for men and 29.7 for women, with respective margins of error of 1.1 and 0.9 years.
Before you travel: Delaware government guidance on marrying abroad.
The earlier Delaware checkpoints were 148 in 2007, 93 in 2019, 94 in 2020, 136 in 2021, 89 in 2023. Delaware's latest annual total was 1.1% above the count recorded in 2019. Across 2021 to 2025, Delaware contributed 536 of the 375,664 countywide licenses, or 0.14%. In 2025 alone, Delaware represented 0.13% of the 70,598 licenses from all origins. At the start of the series, Delaware supplied 148 of 107,901 countywide licenses in 2007, a 0.14% share of that year's total.
Plan the $102 license visit
For your own visit from Delaware, 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 Delaware, 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.