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Las Vegas recorded 1,105 licenses from New York in 2025; the previous year brought 1,213. Year on year, the New York count moved 8.9% lower.
At the top of the New York series is 2007, with 2,001 licenses; 2020 sits at the bottom with 816.
In 2020, the New York count fell 20.7% to 816, its steepest annual percentage decline.
The sharpest New York upward movement was from 816 in 2020 to 1,493 in 2021.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 2,001 |
| 2008 | 1,745 |
| 2009 | 1,658 |
| 2010 | 1,594 |
| 2011 | 1,449 |
| 2012 | 1,305 |
| 2013 | 1,202 |
| 2014 | 1,100 |
| 2015 | 1,090 |
| 2016 | 1,102 |
| 2017 | 1,009 |
| 2018 | 1,060 |
| 2019 | 1,029 |
| 2020 | 816 |
| 2021 | 1,493 |
| 2022 | 1,354 |
| 2023 | 1,117 |
| 2024 | 1,213 |
| 2025 | 1,105 |
The New York journey had a straight-line median of 2,235 miles, calculated from 6,227 matched home locations. Postal-area or unique-place matches supplied distances for 99.12% of the New York group.
Couples from New York collected their largest published monthly total in October: 672 licenses, a 10.7% share. At the other end was January, with 386 licenses; October recorded 286 more. May followed with 633 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 386 |
| February | 522 |
| March | 435 |
| April | 572 |
| May | 633 |
| June | 490 |
| July | 503 |
| August | 578 |
| September | 568 |
| October | 672 |
| November | 487 |
| December | 436 |
For all origins combined, the October share was 10.33%; New York's 10.70% was 0.37 percentage points above that countywide seasonal benchmark. Third in the New York month counts was August at 578 licenses, after the leading October and May totals. Combining October, May and August gives 1,883 licenses from New York, a 30.0% share of 6,282 recent licenses; those same months accounted for 27.8% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
First marriages for both partners numbered 3,234 in the New York group, alongside 3,048 couples in which someone had married before. New York's both-first-marriage share reached 51.5%, or 1.30 percentage points above the 50.2% across all couples.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 3,234 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 3,048 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
In the New York age counts, 2,477 partners fell in the leading 30-34 band. Following that band, New York had 2,009 partners aged 35-39. Compared with 19.3% across all origins, New York recorded 19.7% of partners in its 30-34 age band, a share above the countywide figure. The under-35 share was 37.9% for New York and 42.7% countywide, putting this origin lower on that measure. Further down the New York age distribution, 25-29 accounted for 1,852 people and 40-44 for 1,529, giving those bands the third and fourth positions by published count.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | 14 |
| 20-24 | 420 |
| 25-29 | 1,852 |
| 30-34 | 2,477 |
| 35-39 | 2,009 |
| 40-44 | 1,529 |
| 45-49 | 1,277 |
| 50-54 | 1,080 |
| 55-59 | 890 |
| 60-64 | 541 |
| 65-69 | 269 |
| 70-74 | 122 |
| 75-79 | 66 |
| 80-84 | 14 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
| 90-94 | fewer than 10 |
For every 100,000 adults in New York, there were 6.86 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 16,097,036.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for New York was 6.70 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 20,001,419 people gives an estimated 134,010 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 1,213 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in New York.
New York's ACS 2024 first-marriage medians were 31.9 years for men, margin 0.3, and 30.4 for women, margin 0.2 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| New York city | 598 |
Looking back at New York couples, the published counts were 2,001 in 2007, 1,029 in 2019, 816 in 2020, 1,493 in 2021, 1,117 in 2023. Against 2019, New York couples recorded 7.4% more licenses in 2025. Couples from New York supplied 1.67% of recent Las Vegas licenses: 6,282 within a countywide 375,664 in 2021 to 2025. For New York, the latest count accounts for 1.57% of 70,598 Las Vegas licenses in 2025. The New York share at the beginning of this record was 1.85% in 2007, when 2,001 of the county's 107,901 licenses carried that address.
Plan the $102 license visit
If you are arranging your visit from New York, the marriage license guide covers the $102 fee, identification and collection together at the bureau. For proof to use back in New York, follow the certified-copy guide after the marriage is recorded: a certified certificate costs $20 per copy, and the officiant must return the completed document within 10 days of the ceremony for recording.