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Iowa couples took out 320 licenses in 2025, down from 379 in 2024. For Iowa, that is a fall of 15.6%.
Couples from Iowa reached an annual high of 725 licenses in 2007, against a low of 266 in 2020.
The sharpest annual fall for Iowa was 30.6% in 2020, from 383 to 266 licenses.
The strongest Iowa annual rebound brought 490 licenses in 2021, up 84.2% from 266.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 725 |
| 2008 | 637 |
| 2009 | 652 |
| 2010 | 644 |
| 2011 | 613 |
| 2012 | 569 |
| 2013 | 511 |
| 2014 | 502 |
| 2015 | 466 |
| 2016 | 434 |
| 2017 | 419 |
| 2018 | 443 |
| 2019 | 383 |
| 2020 | 266 |
| 2021 | 490 |
| 2022 | 399 |
| 2023 | 366 |
| 2024 | 379 |
| 2025 | 320 |
The recent Iowa group includes 760 couples marrying for the first time and 1,194 with a previous marriage for at least one partner. The first-wedding share for Iowa was 38.9%, compared with 50.2% across all origins, a gap of 11.29 percentage points below that benchmark.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 760 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,194 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
Partners aged 30-34 formed the biggest published age band for Iowa, at 652 people. The next Iowa age group, 35-39, contained 616 partners. For Iowa, the 30-34 age band made up 16.7% of partners, compared with 19.3% for all origins, putting it below the overall share. The third and fourth age groups from Iowa were 25-29 and 40-44, containing 579 and 522 partners respectively in the recent pooled record.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 211 |
| 25-29 | 579 |
| 30-34 | 652 |
| 35-39 | 616 |
| 40-44 | 522 |
| 45-49 | 466 |
| 50-54 | 382 |
| 55-59 | 214 |
| 60-64 | 156 |
| 65-69 | 61 |
| 70-74 | 20 |
| 75-79 | 19 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
For Iowa, April and October shared the leading monthly total of 197 licenses each, or 10.1% apiece of the recent count. January had the smallest published month count, 112, leaving a gap of 85 licenses between the busiest and quietest months. October followed with 197 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 112 |
| February | 167 |
| March | 177 |
| April | 197 |
| May | 181 |
| June | 174 |
| July | 151 |
| August | 154 |
| September | 174 |
| October | 197 |
| November | 133 |
| December | 137 |
Across all couples, April accounted for 9.70% of recent licenses, compared with 10.08% for Iowa, a gap of 0.38 percentage points above the overall share. The next month after October for Iowa couples was May, with 181 licenses, placing it third in the published monthly ranking. Together, April, October and May supplied 575 recent Iowa licenses, or 29.4% of the 1,954 total; those same months accounted for 29.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
The median straight-line journey from Iowa to Las Vegas measured 1,224 miles across 1,954 matched licenses. Those postal-area and place matches cover 100.00% of the Iowa total.
Iowa had 12.70 Las Vegas licenses per 100,000 adults in 2025, based on 2,518,739 Census adult residents.
For 2024, an estimated 17,121 marriages were performed in Iowa, calculated from the provisional CDC rate of 5.30 per 1,000 and population 3,230,454. The same year brought 379 Las Vegas licenses from Iowa.
At home in Iowa, the ACS 2024 median age at first marriage was 29.4 for men and 26.9 for women; the respective margins of error were 0.5 and 0.6 years.
Following Iowa through the annual record gives 725 in 2007, 383 in 2019, 266 in 2020, 490 in 2021, 366 in 2023. By 2025, Iowa's count stood 16.4% below its 2019 level. The recent Iowa total was 1,954 licenses, a 0.52% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. Iowa's share in 2025 was 0.45% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, Iowa accounted for 0.67% of Las Vegas licenses: 725 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from Iowa 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 Iowa, 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.