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Las Vegas recorded 323 licenses from South Carolina in 2025; the previous year brought 348. Year on year, the South Carolina count moved 7.2% lower.
South Carolina couples took out 408 licenses in 2021, the highest published annual count; the low was 210 in 2020.
In 2008, the South Carolina count fell 25.4% to 249, its steepest annual percentage decline.
The sharpest South Carolina upward movement was from 210 in 2020 to 408 in 2021.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 334 |
| 2008 | 249 |
| 2009 | 258 |
| 2010 | 286 |
| 2011 | 266 |
| 2012 | 248 |
| 2013 | 221 |
| 2014 | 216 |
| 2015 | 253 |
| 2016 | 253 |
| 2017 | 240 |
| 2018 | 266 |
| 2019 | 264 |
| 2020 | 210 |
| 2021 | 408 |
| 2022 | 368 |
| 2023 | 340 |
| 2024 | 348 |
| 2025 | 323 |
Across 1,785 matched South Carolina licenses, the median straight-line distance to Las Vegas rounded to 1,934 miles. Coverage reached 99.89% for South Carolina, joining postal-area centroids or uniquely matched places to the Las Vegas centroid.
Couples from South Carolina collected their largest published monthly total in April: 189 licenses, a 10.6% share. At the other end was January, with 92 licenses; April recorded 97 more. May followed with 185 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 92 |
| February | 146 |
| March | 149 |
| April | 189 |
| May | 185 |
| June | 143 |
| July | 141 |
| August | 150 |
| September | 158 |
| October | 163 |
| November | 124 |
| December | 147 |
For all origins combined, the April share was 9.70%; South Carolina's 10.58% was 0.88 percentage points above that countywide seasonal benchmark. Third in the South Carolina month counts was October at 163 licenses, after the leading April and May totals. Combining April, May and October gives 537 licenses from South Carolina, a 30.1% share of 1,787 recent licenses; those same months accounted for 29.4% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
At least one partner had been married before on 1,116 recent South Carolina licenses, while 671 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 37.5% of the South Carolina total, 12.63 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 671 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,116 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on South Carolina licenses was 30-34, containing 580 partners. South Carolina's next largest band was 35-39 with 533 people. The 30-34 band represented 16.2% of partners from South Carolina, below the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, South Carolina had 489 partners aged 40-44 and 476 aged 25-29, the next two largest published groups in descending order.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 139 |
| 25-29 | 476 |
| 30-34 | 580 |
| 35-39 | 533 |
| 40-44 | 489 |
| 45-49 | 416 |
| 50-54 | 386 |
| 55-59 | 226 |
| 60-64 | 156 |
| 65-69 | 90 |
| 70-74 | 50 |
| 75-79 | 21 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
For every 100,000 adults in South Carolina, there were 7.30 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 4,421,834.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for South Carolina was 6.20 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 5,490,316 people gives an estimated 34,040 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 348 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in South Carolina.
At home in South Carolina, the ACS 2024 median age at first marriage was 29.5 for men and 28.0 for women; the respective margins of error were 0.5 and 0.6 years.
Following South Carolina through the annual record gives 334 in 2007, 264 in 2019, 210 in 2020, 408 in 2021, 340 in 2023. Against 2019, South Carolina couples recorded 22.4% more licenses in 2025. The recent South Carolina total was 1,787 licenses, a 0.48% share of 375,664 from all origins in 2021 to 2025. South Carolina's share in 2025 was 0.46% of the countywide 70,598 licenses. Back in 2007, South Carolina accounted for 0.31% of Las Vegas licenses: 334 out of the countywide 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Couples traveling from South Carolina 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 South Carolina, 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.