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The Massachusetts count fell to 358 in 2025 after 410 licenses the year before. Massachusetts's annual change was 12.7% down.
Couples from Massachusetts reached an annual high of 796 licenses in 2007, against a low of 221 in 2020.
The steepest Massachusetts drop came in 2020: 389 licenses became 221, a 43.2% fall.
The largest Massachusetts percentage rise came in 2021, as 221 licenses became 402.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 796 |
| 2008 | 616 |
| 2009 | 588 |
| 2010 | 601 |
| 2011 | 541 |
| 2012 | 490 |
| 2013 | 481 |
| 2014 | 414 |
| 2015 | 444 |
| 2016 | 448 |
| 2017 | 402 |
| 2018 | 396 |
| 2019 | 389 |
| 2020 | 221 |
| 2021 | 402 |
| 2022 | 413 |
| 2023 | 385 |
| 2024 | 410 |
| 2025 | 358 |
The Massachusetts journey had a straight-line median of 2,371 miles, calculated from 1,842 matched home locations. Postal-area or unique-place matches supplied distances for 93.60% of the Massachusetts group.
The busiest month for Massachusetts couples was October, with 222 licenses and 11.3% of the recent count. The quietest published month was January at 92, 130 fewer than October. May followed with 210 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 92 |
| February | 154 |
| March | 138 |
| April | 198 |
| May | 210 |
| June | 177 |
| July | 137 |
| August | 157 |
| September | 183 |
| October | 222 |
| November | 146 |
| December | 154 |
Massachusetts's October share of 11.28% was above the 10.33% of all licenses issued in that month, a difference of 0.95 percentage points. Following October and May, Massachusetts couples collected 198 licenses in April, the third-largest published monthly group. Across October, May and April, Massachusetts couples collected 630 licenses, making up 32.0% of their 1,968 recent total; across all couples, those months supplied 29.4% of licenses in 2021 to 2025.
First marriages for both partners numbered 971 in the Massachusetts group, alongside 997 couples in which someone had married before. Massachusetts's both-first-marriage share reached 49.3%, or 0.84 percentage points below the 50.2% across all couples.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 971 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 997 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
In the Massachusetts age counts, 775 partners fell in the leading 30-34 band. Following that band, Massachusetts had 619 partners aged 35-39. Compared with 19.3% across all origins, Massachusetts recorded 19.7% of partners in its 30-34 age band, a share above the countywide figure. Further down the Massachusetts age distribution, 25-29 accounted for 569 people and 40-44 for 505, giving those bands the third and fourth positions by published count.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 147 |
| 25-29 | 569 |
| 30-34 | 775 |
| 35-39 | 619 |
| 40-44 | 505 |
| 45-49 | 377 |
| 50-54 | 402 |
| 55-59 | 274 |
| 60-64 | 159 |
| 65-69 | 66 |
| 70-74 | 27 |
| 75-79 | 14 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
For every 100,000 adults in Massachusetts, there were 6.14 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 5,826,510.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for Massachusetts was 5.40 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 7,138,560 people gives an estimated 38,548 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 410 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts's ACS 2024 first-marriage medians were 32.4 years for men, margin 0.5, and 30.9 for women, margin 0.3 years.
Following Massachusetts through the annual record gives 796 in 2007, 389 in 2019, 221 in 2020, 402 in 2021, 385 in 2023. Comparing 2019 with 2025 puts Massachusetts 8.0% below that earlier annual total. The recent Massachusetts total was 1,968 licenses, a 0.52% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. Massachusetts's share in 2025 was 0.51% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, Massachusetts accounted for 0.74% of Las Vegas licenses: 796 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts, 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.