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Las Vegas recorded 322 licenses from Kentucky in 2025; the previous year brought 357. Year on year, the Kentucky count moved 9.8% lower.
Kentucky couples took out 400 licenses in 2021, the highest published annual count; the low was 218 in 2014.
In 2020, the Kentucky count fell 23.4% to 226, its steepest annual percentage decline.
The sharpest Kentucky upward movement was from 226 in 2020 to 400 in 2021.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 354 |
| 2008 | 318 |
| 2009 | 306 |
| 2010 | 322 |
| 2011 | 306 |
| 2012 | 290 |
| 2013 | 250 |
| 2014 | 218 |
| 2015 | 272 |
| 2016 | 283 |
| 2017 | 281 |
| 2018 | 276 |
| 2019 | 295 |
| 2020 | 226 |
| 2021 | 400 |
| 2022 | 345 |
| 2023 | 359 |
| 2024 | 357 |
| 2025 | 322 |
At least one partner had been married before on 1,138 recent Kentucky licenses, while 645 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 36.2% of the Kentucky total, 14.01 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 645 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,138 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
Partners aged 30-34 formed the biggest published age band for Kentucky, at 626 people. The next Kentucky age group, 25-29, contained 534 partners. For Kentucky, the 30-34 age band made up 17.6% of partners, compared with 19.3% for all origins, putting it below the overall share. The third and fourth age groups from Kentucky were 40-44 and 35-39, containing 522 and 492 partners respectively in the recent pooled record.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 172 |
| 25-29 | 534 |
| 30-34 | 626 |
| 35-39 | 492 |
| 40-44 | 522 |
| 45-49 | 422 |
| 50-54 | 359 |
| 55-59 | 203 |
| 60-64 | 137 |
| 65-69 | 62 |
| 70-74 | 20 |
| 75-79 | 11 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
The Kentucky month counts peaked in October with 224 licenses, representing 12.6% of recent licenses. Monthly volume bottomed out at 89 in January, a difference of 135 from the October peak. June followed with 188 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 89 |
| February | 122 |
| March | 135 |
| April | 163 |
| May | 168 |
| June | 188 |
| July | 178 |
| August | 137 |
| September | 163 |
| October | 224 |
| November | 110 |
| December | 106 |
For Kentucky, October's 12.56% share stood 2.23 percentage points above the 10.33% recorded in that month across all couples. The next strongest Kentucky month was July with 178 licenses, completing the leading monthly group after October and June. Adding October, June and July brings the leading three months to 590 Kentucky licenses, or 33.1% of the 1,783 recent total; those same months accounted for 26.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
Across 1,780 matched Kentucky licenses, the median straight-line distance to Las Vegas rounded to 1,636 miles. Coverage reached 99.83% for Kentucky, joining postal-area centroids or uniquely matched places to the Las Vegas centroid.
Against 3,590,081 adult residents, Kentucky's latest license total works out at 8.97 per 100,000 adults.
Applying Kentucky's provisional CDC marriage rate of 7.00 per 1,000 residents to its 2024 Census population of 4,584,046 gives an estimated 32,088 in-state marriages. That year, Kentucky couples also took out 357 Las Vegas licenses.
Census ACS 2024 estimated median first-marriage ages in Kentucky at 27.8 for men and 26.5 for women, with margins of error of 0.7 and 0.4 years respectively.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Louisville city | 454 |
Following Kentucky through the annual record gives 354 in 2007, 295 in 2019, 226 in 2020, 400 in 2021, 359 in 2023. Against 2019, Kentucky couples recorded 9.2% more licenses in 2025. The recent Kentucky total was 1,783 licenses, a 0.47% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. Kentucky's share in 2025 was 0.46% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, Kentucky accounted for 0.33% of Las Vegas licenses: 354 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from Kentucky 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 Kentucky, 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.