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The latest annual total for Mississippi is 174, compared with 185 in 2024. For Mississippi, this represents a 6.0% decrease.
The annual record for Mississippi ranges from 137 in 2020 to 257 in 2007.
For Mississippi, the biggest year-on-year percentage fall was between 2007 and 2008: 257 to 175 licenses.
The biggest annual percentage increase for Mississippi was 64.2% in 2021, ending at 225 licenses.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 257 |
| 2008 | 175 |
| 2009 | 213 |
| 2010 | 222 |
| 2011 | 208 |
| 2012 | 180 |
| 2013 | 162 |
| 2014 | 151 |
| 2015 | 181 |
| 2016 | 172 |
| 2017 | 166 |
| 2018 | 163 |
| 2019 | 162 |
| 2020 | 137 |
| 2021 | 225 |
| 2022 | 199 |
| 2023 | 183 |
| 2024 | 185 |
| 2025 | 174 |
At least one partner had been married before on 608 recent Mississippi licenses, while 358 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 37.1% of the Mississippi total, 13.12 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 358 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 608 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The most common published ages among Mississippi partners were 30-34, a group of 354 people. Second place in the Mississippi age profile went to 35-39, numbering 302 people. The Mississippi share aged 30-34 was 18.3%, below the 19.3% countywide share for those ages. The next largest published Mississippi age band was 40-44 at 266 partners, then 25-29 at 259, following the first two groups in the recent window.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 101 |
| 25-29 | 259 |
| 30-34 | 354 |
| 35-39 | 302 |
| 40-44 | 266 |
| 45-49 | 223 |
| 50-54 | 181 |
| 55-59 | 109 |
| 60-64 | 61 |
| 65-69 | 44 |
| 70-74 | 23 |
| 75-79 | fewer than 10 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
March drew the largest published month total from Mississippi: 96 licenses, or 9.9% of the recent total. January had the smallest published month count, 47, leaving a gap of 49 licenses between the busiest and quietest months. April followed with 94 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 47 |
| February | 77 |
| March | 96 |
| April | 94 |
| May | 78 |
| June | 91 |
| July | 86 |
| August | 74 |
| September | 94 |
| October | 89 |
| November | 70 |
| December | 70 |
Across all couples, March accounted for 8.38% of recent licenses, compared with 9.94% for Mississippi, a gap of 1.56 percentage points above the overall share. September matched April at 94 Mississippi licenses, sharing second place behind March. Together, March, April and September supplied 284 recent Mississippi licenses, or 29.4% of the 966 total; those same months accounted for 27.2% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
For 965 matched Mississippi licenses, the median distance to Las Vegas was 1,477 miles in a straight line. The matched group represents 99.90% of licenses from Mississippi, using postal-area centroids and unique places.
For every 100,000 adults in Mississippi, there were 7.58 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 2,295,720.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for Mississippi was 5.60 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 2,950,172 people gives an estimated 16,521 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 185 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in Mississippi.
Census ACS 2024 estimated median first-marriage ages in Mississippi at 27.5 for men and 26.5 for women, with margins of error of 1.0 and 0.5 years respectively.
The earlier Mississippi checkpoints were 257 in 2007, 162 in 2019, 137 in 2020, 225 in 2021, 183 in 2023. Against 2019, Mississippi couples recorded 7.4% more licenses in 2025. Across 2021 to 2025, Mississippi contributed 966 of the 375,664 countywide licenses, or 0.26%. In 2025 alone, Mississippi represented 0.25% of the 70,598 licenses from all origins. At the start of the series, Mississippi supplied 257 of 107,901 countywide licenses in 2007, a 0.24% share of that year's total.
Plan the $102 license visit
For your own visit from Mississippi, budget $102 for the license and bring the identification listed in the marriage license guide; both partners attend to collect it. To obtain a certificate to take home to Mississippi, allow for the officiant's filing stage, with a deadline of 10 days after the ceremony, then follow the certified-copy guide for the $20 certified certificate once the marriage is recorded.