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After 605 licenses in 2024, couples from Minnesota obtained 541 in 2025. The Minnesota difference amounts to 10.6%.
Couples from Minnesota reached an annual high of 1,323 licenses in 2007, against a low of 529 in 2020.
The largest percentage setback in the published Minnesota series occurred in 2020, when 529 licenses followed 766 the previous year.
Minnesota recorded its fastest annual percentage growth in 2021: 67.9%, reaching 888 licenses.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 1,323 |
| 2008 | 1,092 |
| 2009 | 1,088 |
| 2010 | 982 |
| 2011 | 901 |
| 2012 | 906 |
| 2013 | 846 |
| 2014 | 926 |
| 2015 | 931 |
| 2016 | 782 |
| 2017 | 734 |
| 2018 | 736 |
| 2019 | 766 |
| 2020 | 529 |
| 2021 | 888 |
| 2022 | 710 |
| 2023 | 679 |
| 2024 | 605 |
| 2025 | 541 |
Among recent Minnesota couples, 1,571 reported a first marriage for each partner and 1,852 reported at least one previous marriage. Compared with 50.2% for all couples, 45.9% of Minnesota couples were both marrying for the first time, 4.28 percentage points below the overall share.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 1,571 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,852 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
For Minnesota, the age distribution peaks at 30-34 with 1,225 people. Another 1,069 people on Minnesota licenses were in the second-largest 35-39 band. Partners aged 30-34 represented 17.9% of people on Minnesota licenses, below their 19.3% share among all couples. After its leading two age bands, Minnesota recorded 1,063 partners aged 25-29, followed by 903 aged 40-44 in the next position by count.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | withheld |
| 20-24 | 275 |
| 25-29 | 1,063 |
| 30-34 | 1,225 |
| 35-39 | 1,069 |
| 40-44 | 903 |
| 45-49 | 808 |
| 50-54 | 616 |
| 55-59 | 443 |
| 60-64 | 237 |
| 65-69 | 117 |
| 70-74 | 57 |
| 75-79 | 14 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
The Minnesota month counts peaked in April with 428 licenses, representing 12.5% of recent licenses. Monthly volume bottomed out at 209 in December, a difference of 219 from the April peak. May followed with 345 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 213 |
| February | 334 |
| March | 320 |
| April | 428 |
| May | 345 |
| June | 227 |
| July | 238 |
| August | 257 |
| September | 275 |
| October | 342 |
| November | 235 |
| December | 209 |
For Minnesota, April's 12.50% share stood 2.80 percentage points above the 9.70% recorded in that month across all couples. The next strongest Minnesota month was October with 342 licenses, completing the leading monthly group after April and May. Adding April, May and October brings the leading three months to 1,115 Minnesota licenses, or 32.6% of the 3,423 recent total; those same months accounted for 29.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
For 3,415 matched Minnesota licenses, the median distance to Las Vegas was 1,296 miles in a straight line. The matched group represents 99.77% of licenses from Minnesota, using postal-area centroids and unique places.
Minnesota had 11.90 Las Vegas licenses per 100,000 adults in 2025, based on 4,547,092 Census adult residents.
For 2024, an estimated 29,567 marriages were performed in Minnesota, calculated from the provisional CDC rate of 5.10 per 1,000 and population 5,797,405. The same year brought 605 Las Vegas licenses from Minnesota.
The 2024 ACS puts Minnesota's median first-marriage age at 30.6 among men and 28.6 among women, subject to margins of 0.4 and 0.4 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Minneapolis city | 343 |
For Minnesota, the annual chart records 1,323 in 2007, 766 in 2019, 529 in 2020, 888 in 2021, 679 in 2023. By 2025, Minnesota's count stood 29.4% below its 2019 level. Out of 375,664 recent licenses countywide, 3,423 carried a Minnesota address, accounting for 0.91% of the 2021 to 2025 total. The latest-year Minnesota share was 0.77%, against 70,598 licenses in the full county total. The opening 2007 file placed Minnesota at 1.23% of the total, with 1,323 licenses within the county's 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Before leaving Minnesota, use the marriage license guide to check identification and plan the joint license visit, which costs $102. For your return to Minnesota, 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.