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The New Mexico count fell to 539 in 2025 after 617 licenses the year before. New Mexico's annual change was 12.6% down.
At the top of the New Mexico series is 2007, with 1,053 licenses; 2020 sits at the bottom with 350.
The steepest New Mexico drop came in 2020: 541 licenses became 350, a 35.3% fall.
The largest New Mexico percentage rise came in 2021, as 350 licenses became 725.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 1,053 |
| 2008 | 879 |
| 2009 | 940 |
| 2010 | 968 |
| 2011 | 834 |
| 2012 | 776 |
| 2013 | 717 |
| 2014 | 670 |
| 2015 | 594 |
| 2016 | 594 |
| 2017 | 554 |
| 2018 | 557 |
| 2019 | 541 |
| 2020 | 350 |
| 2021 | 725 |
| 2022 | 627 |
| 2023 | 597 |
| 2024 | 617 |
| 2025 | 539 |
In the New Mexico age counts, 1,183 partners fell in the leading 30-34 band. Following that band, New Mexico had 1,053 partners aged 25-29. Compared with 19.3% across all origins, New Mexico recorded 19.1% of partners in its 30-34 age band, a share below the countywide figure. Compared with the countywide 42.7%, New Mexico had a higher under-35 share of 43.7%. Further down the New Mexico age distribution, 35-39 accounted for 898 people and 40-44 for 796, giving those bands the third and fourth positions by published count.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | 22 |
| 20-24 | 453 |
| 25-29 | 1,053 |
| 30-34 | 1,183 |
| 35-39 | 898 |
| 40-44 | 796 |
| 45-49 | 627 |
| 50-54 | 465 |
| 55-59 | 304 |
| 60-64 | 199 |
| 65-69 | 118 |
| 70-74 | 52 |
| 75-79 | 28 |
| 80-84 | 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
| 90-94 | fewer than 10 |
First marriages for both partners numbered 1,479 in the New Mexico group, alongside 1,626 couples in which someone had married before. New Mexico's both-first-marriage share reached 47.6%, or 2.55 percentage points below the 50.2% across all couples.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 1,479 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,626 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
Couples from New Mexico collected their largest published monthly total in October: 334 licenses, a 10.8% share. At the other end was January, with 136 licenses; October recorded 198 more. July followed with 309 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 136 |
| February | 194 |
| March | 290 |
| April | 302 |
| May | 304 |
| June | 276 |
| July | 309 |
| August | 226 |
| September | 264 |
| October | 334 |
| November | 246 |
| December | 224 |
For all origins combined, the October share was 10.33%; New Mexico's 10.76% was 0.43 percentage points above that countywide seasonal benchmark. Third in the New Mexico month counts was May at 304 licenses, after the leading October and July totals. Combining October, July and May gives 947 licenses from New Mexico, a 30.5% share of 3,105 recent licenses; those same months accounted for 27.8% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
Couples from New Mexico had a median matched distance of 493 straight-line miles to Las Vegas, with matches for 3,101 licenses. Matching covered 99.87% of recent New Mexico licenses, using home postal-area or place centroids.
The latest New Mexico total corresponds to 31.97 licenses per 100,000 adults, using the Census count of 1,686,046 adults.
The state-occurrence estimate for New Mexico is 11,485 marriages in 2024, using 2,126,774 residents and a provisional CDC rate of 5.40 per 1,000. For comparison, the Las Vegas New Mexico count in that year was 617 licenses.
New Mexico's ACS 2024 first-marriage medians were 32.0 years for men, margin 1.7, and 29.4 for women, margin 1.2 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Albuquerque city | 1,172 |
For New Mexico, the annual chart records 1,053 in 2007, 541 in 2019, 350 in 2020, 725 in 2021, 597 in 2023. New Mexico's latest annual total was 0.4% below the count recorded in 2019. Out of 375,664 recent licenses countywide, 3,105 carried a New Mexico address, accounting for 0.83% of the 2021 to 2025 total. The latest-year New Mexico share was 0.76%, against 70,598 licenses in the full county total. The opening 2007 file placed New Mexico at 0.98% of the total, with 1,053 licenses within the county's 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Before leaving New Mexico, use the marriage license guide to check identification and plan the joint license visit, which costs $102. For your return to New Mexico, 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.