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The Maryland count fell to 389 in 2025 after 448 licenses the year before. Maryland's annual change was 13.2% down.
Couples from Maryland reached an annual high of 881 licenses in 2007, against a low of 357 in 2020.
The steepest Maryland drop came in 2008: 881 licenses became 637, a 27.7% fall.
The largest Maryland percentage rise came in 2021, as 357 licenses became 549.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 881 |
| 2008 | 637 |
| 2009 | 660 |
| 2010 | 638 |
| 2011 | 574 |
| 2012 | 523 |
| 2013 | 516 |
| 2014 | 513 |
| 2015 | 557 |
| 2016 | 489 |
| 2017 | 486 |
| 2018 | 464 |
| 2019 | 421 |
| 2020 | 357 |
| 2021 | 549 |
| 2022 | 501 |
| 2023 | 453 |
| 2024 | 448 |
| 2025 | 389 |
The Maryland journey had a straight-line median of 2,101 miles, calculated from 2,335 matched home locations. Postal-area or unique-place matches supplied distances for 99.79% of the Maryland group.
For Maryland, October led the monthly totals at 270 licenses, accounting for 11.5% of the period. By comparison, January brought 121 licenses, the lowest published monthly total and 149 below October. May followed with 240 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 121 |
| February | 203 |
| March | 175 |
| April | 234 |
| May | 240 |
| June | 198 |
| July | 201 |
| August | 191 |
| September | 190 |
| October | 270 |
| November | 179 |
| December | 138 |
Compared with 10.33% across all origins, October contributed 11.54% of Maryland licenses, putting its share 1.21 percentage points above the countywide figure. The third monthly position for Maryland went to April, contributing 234 licenses behind October and May. The leading months, October, May and April, together accounted for 744 Maryland licenses, representing 31.8% of the 2,340 recent count; those same months accounted for 29.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
Among recent Maryland couples, 1,047 reported a first marriage for each partner and 1,293 reported at least one previous marriage. Compared with 50.2% for all couples, 44.7% of Maryland couples were both marrying for the first time, 5.44 percentage points below the overall share.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 1,047 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,293 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
Partners aged 30-34 formed the biggest published age band for Maryland, at 810 people. The next Maryland age group, 35-39, contained 794 partners. For Maryland, the 30-34 age band made up 17.3% of partners, compared with 19.3% for all origins, putting it below the overall share. The third and fourth age groups from Maryland were 40-44 and 25-29, containing 642 and 606 partners respectively in the recent pooled record.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 151 |
| 25-29 | 606 |
| 30-34 | 810 |
| 35-39 | 794 |
| 40-44 | 642 |
| 45-49 | 513 |
| 50-54 | 450 |
| 55-59 | 352 |
| 60-64 | 216 |
| 65-69 | 86 |
| 70-74 | 38 |
| 75-79 | fewer than 10 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
For every 100,000 adults in Maryland, there were 7.89 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 4,928,480.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for Maryland was 5.30 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 6,245,314 people gives an estimated 33,100 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 448 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in Maryland.
Maryland's ACS 2024 first-marriage medians were 32.2 years for men, margin 0.7, and 29.6 for women, margin 0.3 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Baltimore city | 364 |
For Maryland, the annual chart records 881 in 2007, 421 in 2019, 357 in 2020, 549 in 2021, 453 in 2023. Comparing 2019 with 2025 puts Maryland 7.6% below that earlier annual total. Out of 375,664 recent licenses countywide, 2,340 carried a Maryland address, accounting for 0.62% of the 2021 to 2025 total. The latest-year Maryland share was 0.55%, against 70,598 licenses in the full county total. The opening 2007 file placed Maryland at 0.82% of the total, with 881 licenses within the county's 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Before leaving Maryland, use the marriage license guide to check identification and plan the joint license visit, which costs $102. For your return to Maryland, 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.