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After 645 licenses in 2024, couples from Oklahoma obtained 580 in 2025. The Oklahoma difference amounts to 10.1%.
At the top of the Oklahoma series is 2007, with 1,112 licenses; 2020 sits at the bottom with 468.
The largest percentage setback in the published Oklahoma series occurred in 2020, when 468 licenses followed 608 the previous year.
Oklahoma recorded its fastest annual percentage growth in 2021: 56.6%, reaching 733 licenses.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 1,112 |
| 2008 | 1,051 |
| 2009 | 998 |
| 2010 | 1,026 |
| 2011 | 883 |
| 2012 | 884 |
| 2013 | 750 |
| 2014 | 730 |
| 2015 | 766 |
| 2016 | 690 |
| 2017 | 651 |
| 2018 | 688 |
| 2019 | 608 |
| 2020 | 468 |
| 2021 | 733 |
| 2022 | 714 |
| 2023 | 662 |
| 2024 | 645 |
| 2025 | 580 |
At least one partner had been married before on 2,240 recent Oklahoma licenses, while 1,094 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 32.8% of the Oklahoma total, 17.37 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 1,094 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 2,240 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on Oklahoma licenses was 30-34, containing 1,089 partners. Oklahoma's next largest band was 35-39 with 1,065 people. The 30-34 band represented 16.3% of partners from Oklahoma, below the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. The under-35 share was 37.1% for Oklahoma and 42.7% countywide, putting this origin lower on that measure. Beyond those first two bands, Oklahoma had 986 partners aged 25-29 and 975 aged 40-44, the next two largest published groups in descending order.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | 11 |
| 20-24 | 387 |
| 25-29 | 986 |
| 30-34 | 1,089 |
| 35-39 | 1,065 |
| 40-44 | 975 |
| 45-49 | 761 |
| 50-54 | 578 |
| 55-59 | 356 |
| 60-64 | 213 |
| 65-69 | 140 |
| 70-74 | 66 |
| 75-79 | 30 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
October drew the largest published month total from Oklahoma: 340 licenses, or 10.2% of the recent total. January had the smallest published month count, 165, leaving a gap of 175 licenses between the busiest and quietest months. May followed with 321 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 165 |
| February | 263 |
| March | 296 |
| April | 282 |
| May | 321 |
| June | 293 |
| July | 316 |
| August | 252 |
| September | 273 |
| October | 340 |
| November | 243 |
| December | 290 |
Across all couples, October accounted for 10.33% of recent licenses, compared with 10.20% for Oklahoma, a gap of 0.13 percentage points below the overall share. The next month after May for Oklahoma couples was July, with 316 licenses, placing it third in the published monthly ranking. Together, October, May and July supplied 977 recent Oklahoma licenses, or 29.3% of the 3,334 total; those same months accounted for 27.8% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
The median straight-line journey from Oklahoma to Las Vegas measured 1,001 miles across 3,333 matched licenses. Those postal-area and place matches cover 99.97% of the Oklahoma total.
On a population scale, Oklahoma recorded 18.32 licenses per 100,000 adults; the denominator is 3,165,587 adult residents.
Oklahoma's 2024 population was 4,097,758; with the provisional CDC rate of 5.90 per 1,000, that yields an estimated 24,177 marriages performed there. Las Vegas separately recorded 645 licenses with Oklahoma addresses that year.
Census ACS 2024 estimated median first-marriage ages in Oklahoma at 28.1 for men and 26.4 for women, with margins of error of 0.8 and 0.3 years respectively.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Oklahoma City city | 533 |
| Tulsa city | 327 |
For Oklahoma, the annual chart records 1,112 in 2007, 608 in 2019, 468 in 2020, 733 in 2021, 662 in 2023. Comparing 2019 with 2025 puts Oklahoma 4.6% below that earlier annual total. Out of 375,664 recent licenses countywide, 3,334 carried a Oklahoma address, accounting for 0.89% of the 2021 to 2025 total. The latest-year Oklahoma share was 0.82%, against 70,598 licenses in the full county total. The opening 2007 file placed Oklahoma at 1.03% of the total, with 1,112 licenses within the county's 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Before leaving Oklahoma, use the marriage license guide to check identification and plan the joint license visit, which costs $102. For your return to Oklahoma, 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.