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Louisiana couples took out 360 licenses in 2025, down from 439 in 2024. For Louisiana, that is a fall of 18.0%.
The annual record for Louisiana ranges from 360 in 2025 to 608 in 2021.
The sharpest annual fall for Louisiana was 19.9% in 2022, from 608 to 487 licenses.
The strongest Louisiana annual rebound brought 608 licenses in 2021, up 55.9% from 390.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 588 |
| 2008 | 500 |
| 2009 | 497 |
| 2010 | 537 |
| 2011 | 602 |
| 2012 | 515 |
| 2013 | 469 |
| 2014 | 428 |
| 2015 | 466 |
| 2016 | 521 |
| 2017 | 440 |
| 2018 | 365 |
| 2019 | 391 |
| 2020 | 390 |
| 2021 | 608 |
| 2022 | 487 |
| 2023 | 403 |
| 2024 | 439 |
| 2025 | 360 |
The recent Louisiana group includes 901 couples marrying for the first time and 1,396 with a previous marriage for at least one partner. The first-wedding share for Louisiana was 39.2%, compared with 50.2% across all origins, a gap of 10.95 percentage points below that benchmark.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 901 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,396 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Louisiana licenses was 30-34, containing 726 partners. Louisiana's next largest band was 35-39 with 726 people. The 30-34 band represented 15.8% of partners from Louisiana, below the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, Louisiana had 648 partners aged 40-44 and 646 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 | 199 |
| 25-29 | 646 |
| 30-34 | 726 |
| 35-39 | 726 |
| 40-44 | 648 |
| 45-49 | 568 |
| 50-54 | 485 |
| 55-59 | 274 |
| 60-64 | 178 |
| 65-69 | 70 |
| 70-74 | 44 |
| 75-79 | 18 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
Couples from Louisiana collected their largest published monthly total in October: 244 licenses, a 10.6% share. At the other end was January, with 132 licenses; October recorded 112 more. April followed with 223 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 132 |
| February | 182 |
| March | 188 |
| April | 223 |
| May | 208 |
| June | 199 |
| July | 213 |
| August | 155 |
| September | 199 |
| October | 244 |
| November | 188 |
| December | 166 |
For all origins combined, the October share was 10.33%; Louisiana's 10.62% was 0.29 percentage points above that countywide seasonal benchmark. Third in the Louisiana month counts was July at 213 licenses, after the leading October and April totals. Combining October, April and July gives 680 licenses from Louisiana, a 29.6% share of 2,297 recent licenses; those same months accounted for 28.0% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
For 2,295 matched Louisiana licenses, the median distance to Las Vegas was 1,447 miles in a straight line. The matched group represents 99.91% of licenses from Louisiana, using postal-area centroids and unique places.
Against 3,568,234 adult residents, Louisiana's latest license total works out at 10.09 per 100,000 adults.
Applying Louisiana's provisional CDC marriage rate of 3.70 per 1,000 residents to its 2024 Census population of 4,614,878 gives an estimated 17,075 in-state marriages. That year, Louisiana couples also took out 439 Las Vegas licenses.
The 2024 ACS puts Louisiana's median first-marriage age at 30.2 among men and 27.3 among women, subject to margins of 0.8 and 0.8 years.
For Louisiana, the annual chart records 588 in 2007, 391 in 2019, 390 in 2020, 608 in 2021, 403 in 2023. Comparing 2019 with 2025 puts Louisiana 7.9% below that earlier annual total. Out of 375,664 recent licenses countywide, 2,297 carried a Louisiana address, accounting for 0.61% of the 2021 to 2025 total. The latest-year Louisiana share was 0.51%, against 70,598 licenses in the full county total. The opening 2007 file placed Louisiana at 0.54% of the total, with 588 licenses within the county's 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Before leaving Louisiana, use the marriage license guide to check identification and plan the joint license visit, which costs $102. For your return to Louisiana, the certified-copy guide explains requesting proof after recording, at $20 for each certified certificate; the officiant has 10 days after the ceremony to return the completed document for recording.