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The latest annual total for Hawaii is 257, compared with 265 in 2024. For Hawaii, this represents a 3.0% decrease.
At the top of the Hawaii series is 2007, with 487 licenses; 2020 sits at the bottom with 106.
For Hawaii, the biggest year-on-year percentage fall was between 2019 and 2020: 243 to 106 licenses.
The biggest annual percentage increase for Hawaii was 112.3% in 2021, ending at 225 licenses.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 487 |
| 2008 | 348 |
| 2009 | 311 |
| 2010 | 324 |
| 2011 | 285 |
| 2012 | 300 |
| 2013 | 266 |
| 2014 | 267 |
| 2015 | 266 |
| 2016 | 301 |
| 2017 | 270 |
| 2018 | 250 |
| 2019 | 243 |
| 2020 | 106 |
| 2021 | 225 |
| 2022 | 312 |
| 2023 | 307 |
| 2024 | 265 |
| 2025 | 257 |
The Hawaii journey had a straight-line median of 2,750 miles, calculated from 1,358 matched home locations. Postal-area or unique-place matches supplied distances for 99.41% of the Hawaii group.
For Hawaii, October led the monthly totals at 160 licenses, accounting for 11.7% of the period. By comparison, January brought 77 licenses, the lowest published monthly total and 83 below October. December followed with 142 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 77 |
| February | 118 |
| March | 122 |
| April | 104 |
| May | 114 |
| June | 94 |
| July | 98 |
| August | 104 |
| September | 99 |
| October | 160 |
| November | 134 |
| December | 142 |
Compared with 10.33% across all origins, October contributed 11.71% of Hawaii licenses, putting its share 1.38 percentage points above the countywide figure. The third monthly position for Hawaii went to November, contributing 134 licenses behind October and December. The leading months, October, December and November, together accounted for 436 Hawaii licenses, representing 31.9% of the 1,366 recent count; those same months accounted for 25.5% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
Among recent Hawaii couples, 628 reported a first marriage for each partner and 738 reported at least one previous marriage. Compared with 50.2% for all couples, 46.0% of Hawaii couples were both marrying for the first time, 4.21 percentage points below the overall share.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 628 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 738 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Hawaii licenses was 30-34, containing 413 partners. Hawaii's next largest band was 35-39 with 372 people. The 30-34 band represented 15.1% of partners from Hawaii, below the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, Hawaii had 353 partners aged 40-44 and 304 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 | 129 |
| 25-29 | 304 |
| 30-34 | 413 |
| 35-39 | 372 |
| 40-44 | 353 |
| 45-49 | 293 |
| 50-54 | 288 |
| 55-59 | 229 |
| 60-64 | 146 |
| 65-69 | 111 |
| 70-74 | 49 |
| 75-79 | 26 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
| 90-94 | fewer than 10 |
On a population scale, Hawaii recorded 22.33 licenses per 100,000 adults; the denominator is 1,151,103 adult residents.
Hawaii's 2024 population was 1,434,952; with the provisional CDC rate of 12.40 per 1,000, that yields an estimated 17,793 marriages performed there. Las Vegas separately recorded 265 licenses with Hawaii addresses that year.
For first marriages in Hawaii, ACS 2024 reports medians of 30.9 years for men and 29.7 for women, with respective margins of error of 0.9 and 0.8 years.
Following Hawaii through the annual record gives 487 in 2007, 243 in 2019, 106 in 2020, 225 in 2021, 307 in 2023. Hawaii's latest annual total was 5.8% above the count recorded in 2019. The recent Hawaii total was 1,366 licenses, a 0.36% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. Hawaii's share in 2025 was 0.36% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, Hawaii accounted for 0.45% of Las Vegas licenses: 487 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from Hawaii 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 Hawaii, 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.