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The Kansas count fell to 315 in 2025 after 364 licenses the year before. Kansas's annual change was 13.5% down.
Couples from Kansas reached an annual high of 797 licenses in 2007, against a low of 266 in 2020.
The steepest Kansas drop came in 2020: 397 licenses became 266, a 33.0% fall.
The largest Kansas percentage rise came in 2021, as 266 licenses became 423.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 797 |
| 2008 | 689 |
| 2009 | 678 |
| 2010 | 641 |
| 2011 | 587 |
| 2012 | 569 |
| 2013 | 527 |
| 2014 | 479 |
| 2015 | 504 |
| 2016 | 459 |
| 2017 | 462 |
| 2018 | 385 |
| 2019 | 397 |
| 2020 | 266 |
| 2021 | 423 |
| 2022 | 371 |
| 2023 | 354 |
| 2024 | 364 |
| 2025 | 315 |
At least one partner had been married before on 1,139 recent Kansas licenses, while 688 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 37.7% of the Kansas total, 12.52 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 688 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,139 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Kansas licenses was 25-29, containing 590 partners. Kansas's next largest band was 30-34 with 579 people. The 25-29 band represented 16.1% of partners from Kansas, below the 16.6% in the same band across all couples. Across Kansas licenses, 38.0% of partners were under 35, a lower share than the all-origin 42.7%. Beyond those first two bands, Kansas had 543 partners aged 35-39 and 528 aged 40-44, the next two largest published groups in descending order.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | 11 |
| 20-24 | 210 |
| 25-29 | 590 |
| 30-34 | 579 |
| 35-39 | 543 |
| 40-44 | 528 |
| 45-49 | 395 |
| 50-54 | 356 |
| 55-59 | 219 |
| 60-64 | 115 |
| 65-69 | 68 |
| 70-74 | 25 |
| 75-79 | 11 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
October drew the largest published month total from Kansas: 193 licenses, or 10.6% of the recent total. January had the smallest published month count, 105, leaving a gap of 88 licenses between the busiest and quietest months. July followed with 181 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 105 |
| February | 128 |
| March | 149 |
| April | 165 |
| May | 160 |
| June | 162 |
| July | 181 |
| August | 136 |
| September | 167 |
| October | 193 |
| November | 141 |
| December | 140 |
Across all couples, October accounted for 10.33% of recent licenses, compared with 10.56% for Kansas, a gap of 0.23 percentage points above the overall share. The next month after July for Kansas couples was September, with 167 licenses, placing it third in the published monthly ranking. Together, October, July and September supplied 541 recent Kansas licenses, or 29.6% of the 1,827 total; those same months accounted for 27.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
The median straight-line journey from Kansas to Las Vegas measured 1,055 miles across 1,825 matched licenses. Those postal-area and place matches cover 99.89% of the Kansas total.
Kansas had 13.73 Las Vegas licenses per 100,000 adults in 2025, based on 2,294,452 Census adult residents.
For 2024, an estimated 16,605 marriages were performed in Kansas, calculated from the provisional CDC rate of 5.60 per 1,000 and population 2,965,252. The same year brought 364 Las Vegas licenses from Kansas.
At home in Kansas, the ACS 2024 median age at first marriage was 28.8 for men and 26.2 for women; the respective margins of error were 0.6 and 0.4 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Wichita city | 345 |
Following Kansas through the annual record gives 797 in 2007, 397 in 2019, 266 in 2020, 423 in 2021, 354 in 2023. By 2025, Kansas's count stood 20.6% below its 2019 level. The recent Kansas total was 1,827 licenses, a 0.49% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. Kansas's share in 2025 was 0.45% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, Kansas accounted for 0.74% of Las Vegas licenses: 797 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from Kansas 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 Kansas, 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.