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Las Vegas recorded 166 licenses from Montana in 2025; the previous year brought 177. Year on year, the Montana count moved 6.2% lower.
The largest yearly group from Montana numbered 352 in 2007. Its smallest published group was 108 in 2020.
In 2020, the Montana count fell 47.3% to 108, its steepest annual percentage decline.
The sharpest Montana upward movement was from 108 in 2020 to 225 in 2021.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 352 |
| 2008 | 272 |
| 2009 | 316 |
| 2010 | 286 |
| 2011 | 316 |
| 2012 | 326 |
| 2013 | 244 |
| 2014 | 242 |
| 2015 | 238 |
| 2016 | 199 |
| 2017 | 188 |
| 2018 | 194 |
| 2019 | 205 |
| 2020 | 108 |
| 2021 | 225 |
| 2022 | 177 |
| 2023 | 203 |
| 2024 | 177 |
| 2025 | 166 |
At least one partner had been married before on 597 recent Montana licenses, while 351 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 37.0% of the Montana total, 13.15 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 351 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 597 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Montana licenses was 25-29, containing 303 partners. Montana's next largest band was 30-34 with 297 people. The 25-29 band represented 16.0% of partners from Montana, below the 16.6% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, Montana had 290 partners aged 35-39 and 251 aged 40-44, the next two largest published groups in descending order.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 114 |
| 25-29 | 303 |
| 30-34 | 297 |
| 35-39 | 290 |
| 40-44 | 251 |
| 45-49 | 206 |
| 50-54 | 149 |
| 55-59 | 112 |
| 60-64 | 76 |
| 65-69 | 52 |
| 70-74 | 25 |
| 75-79 | 13 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
The Montana month counts peaked in December with 114 licenses, representing 12.0% of recent licenses. Monthly volume bottomed out at 45 in January, a difference of 69 from the December peak. April followed with 93 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 45 |
| February | 82 |
| March | 82 |
| April | 93 |
| May | 82 |
| June | 77 |
| July | 63 |
| August | 64 |
| September | 75 |
| October | 92 |
| November | 79 |
| December | 114 |
For Montana, December's 12.03% share stood 4.62 percentage points above the 7.41% recorded in that month across all couples. The next strongest Montana month was October with 92 licenses, completing the leading monthly group after December and April. Adding December, April and October brings the leading three months to 299 Montana licenses, or 31.5% of the 948 recent total; those same months accounted for 27.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
Couples from Montana had a median matched distance of 745 straight-line miles to Las Vegas, with matches for 946 licenses. Matching covered 99.79% of recent Montana licenses, using home postal-area or place centroids.
On a population scale, Montana recorded 18.18 licenses per 100,000 adults; the denominator is 913,041 adult residents.
Montana's 2024 population was 1,137,557; with the provisional CDC rate of 9.20 per 1,000, that yields an estimated 10,466 marriages performed there. Las Vegas separately recorded 177 licenses with Montana addresses that year.
The 2024 ACS puts Montana's median first-marriage age at 30.5 among men and 28.0 among women, subject to margins of 1.1 and 1.3 years.
The earlier Montana checkpoints were 352 in 2007, 205 in 2019, 108 in 2020, 225 in 2021, 203 in 2023. By 2025, Montana's count stood 19.0% below its 2019 level. Across 2021 to 2025, Montana contributed 948 of the 375,664 countywide licenses, or 0.25%. In 2025 alone, Montana represented 0.24% of the 70,598 licenses from all origins. At the start of the series, Montana supplied 352 of 107,901 countywide licenses in 2007, a 0.33% share of that year's total.
Plan the $102 license visit
For your own visit from Montana, 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 Montana, 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.