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Nebraska couples took out 212 licenses in 2025, down from 255 in 2024. For Nebraska, that is a fall of 16.9%.
The largest yearly group from Nebraska numbered 446 in 2007. Its smallest published group was 200 in 2020.
The sharpest annual fall for Nebraska was 19.0% in 2016, from 332 to 269 licenses.
The strongest Nebraska annual rebound brought 263 licenses in 2021, up 31.5% from 200.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 446 |
| 2008 | 428 |
| 2009 | 441 |
| 2010 | 421 |
| 2011 | 424 |
| 2012 | 405 |
| 2013 | 337 |
| 2014 | 327 |
| 2015 | 332 |
| 2016 | 269 |
| 2017 | 264 |
| 2018 | 276 |
| 2019 | 242 |
| 2020 | 200 |
| 2021 | 263 |
| 2022 | 279 |
| 2023 | 286 |
| 2024 | 255 |
| 2025 | 212 |
The recent Nebraska group includes 505 couples marrying for the first time and 790 with a previous marriage for at least one partner. The first-wedding share for Nebraska was 39.0%, compared with 50.2% across all origins, a gap of 11.18 percentage points below that benchmark.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 505 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 790 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
Partners aged 30-34 formed the biggest published age band for Nebraska, at 450 people. The next Nebraska age group, 25-29, contained 422 partners. For Nebraska, the 30-34 age band made up 17.4% of partners, compared with 19.3% for all origins, putting it below the overall share. The third and fourth age groups from Nebraska were 35-39 and 40-44, containing 358 and 322 partners respectively in the recent pooled record.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 132 |
| 25-29 | 422 |
| 30-34 | 450 |
| 35-39 | 358 |
| 40-44 | 322 |
| 45-49 | 292 |
| 50-54 | 223 |
| 55-59 | 156 |
| 60-64 | 128 |
| 65-69 | 52 |
| 70-74 | 30 |
| 75-79 | 13 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
The Nebraska month counts peaked in April with 163 licenses, representing 12.6% of recent licenses. Monthly volume bottomed out at 57 in January, a difference of 106 from the April peak. October followed with 129 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 57 |
| February | 107 |
| March | 105 |
| April | 163 |
| May | 126 |
| June | 103 |
| July | 104 |
| August | 96 |
| September | 106 |
| October | 129 |
| November | 97 |
| December | 102 |
For Nebraska, April's 12.59% share stood 2.89 percentage points above the 9.70% recorded in that month across all couples. The next strongest Nebraska month was May with 126 licenses, completing the leading monthly group after April and October. Adding April, October and May brings the leading three months to 418 Nebraska licenses, or 32.3% of the 1,295 recent total; those same months accounted for 29.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
The median straight-line journey from Nebraska to Las Vegas measured 1,070 miles across 1,295 matched licenses. Those postal-area and place matches cover 100.00% of the Nebraska total.
On a population scale, Nebraska recorded 13.78 licenses per 100,000 adults; the denominator is 1,538,757 adult residents.
Nebraska's 2024 population was 2,005,591; with the provisional CDC rate of 5.60 per 1,000, that yields an estimated 11,231 marriages performed there. Las Vegas separately recorded 255 licenses with Nebraska addresses that year.
At home in Nebraska, the ACS 2024 median age at first marriage was 29.2 for men and 26.8 for women; the respective margins of error were 0.6 and 0.7 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Omaha city | 429 |
Following Nebraska through the annual record gives 446 in 2007, 242 in 2019, 200 in 2020, 263 in 2021, 286 in 2023. The latest Nebraska count is 12.4% below the 2019 figure, using the same address grouping. The recent Nebraska total was 1,295 licenses, a 0.34% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. Nebraska's share in 2025 was 0.30% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, Nebraska accounted for 0.41% of Las Vegas licenses: 446 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from Nebraska 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 Nebraska, 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.