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The Tennessee count fell to 523 in 2025 after 602 licenses the year before. Tennessee's annual change was 13.1% down.
Tennessee couples took out 669 licenses in 2021, the highest published annual count; the low was 365 in 2013.
The steepest Tennessee drop came in 2013: 442 licenses became 365, a 17.4% fall.
The largest Tennessee percentage rise came in 2021, as 416 licenses became 669.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 606 |
| 2008 | 501 |
| 2009 | 462 |
| 2010 | 518 |
| 2011 | 498 |
| 2012 | 442 |
| 2013 | 365 |
| 2014 | 407 |
| 2015 | 377 |
| 2016 | 414 |
| 2017 | 462 |
| 2018 | 454 |
| 2019 | 489 |
| 2020 | 416 |
| 2021 | 669 |
| 2022 | 601 |
| 2023 | 582 |
| 2024 | 602 |
| 2025 | 523 |
For couples from Tennessee, both-first marriages accounted for 1,214 licenses; another 1,763 involved a remarriage. At 40.8%, Tennessee's both-first share was below the countywide 50.2% by 9.40 percentage points.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 1,214 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,763 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
For Tennessee, the age distribution peaks at 30-34 with 1,047 people. Another 930 people on Tennessee licenses were in the second-largest 25-29 band. Partners aged 30-34 represented 17.6% of people on Tennessee licenses, below their 19.3% share among all couples. After its leading two age bands, Tennessee recorded 829 partners aged 35-39, followed by 782 aged 40-44 in the next position by count.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | fewer than 10 |
| 20-24 | 325 |
| 25-29 | 930 |
| 30-34 | 1,047 |
| 35-39 | 829 |
| 40-44 | 782 |
| 45-49 | 663 |
| 50-54 | 585 |
| 55-59 | 375 |
| 60-64 | 221 |
| 65-69 | 114 |
| 70-74 | 52 |
| 75-79 | 14 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
The Tennessee month counts peaked in October with 365 licenses, representing 12.3% of recent licenses. Monthly volume bottomed out at 149 in January, a difference of 216 from the October peak. April followed with 295 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 149 |
| February | 224 |
| March | 222 |
| April | 295 |
| May | 275 |
| June | 243 |
| July | 252 |
| August | 225 |
| September | 284 |
| October | 365 |
| November | 237 |
| December | 206 |
For Tennessee, October's 12.26% share stood 1.93 percentage points above the 10.33% recorded in that month across all couples. The next strongest Tennessee month was September with 284 licenses, completing the leading monthly group after October and April. Adding October, April and September brings the leading three months to 944 Tennessee licenses, or 31.7% of the 2,977 recent total; those same months accounted for 29.1% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
For 2,969 matched Tennessee licenses, the median distance to Las Vegas was 1,589 miles in a straight line. The matched group represents 99.73% of licenses from Tennessee, using postal-area centroids and unique places.
Against 5,739,349 adult residents, Tennessee's latest license total works out at 9.11 per 100,000 adults.
Applying Tennessee's provisional CDC marriage rate of 7.60 per 1,000 residents to its 2024 Census population of 7,251,291 gives an estimated 55,110 in-state marriages. That year, Tennessee couples also took out 602 Las Vegas licenses.
At home in Tennessee, the ACS 2024 median age at first marriage was 28.7 for men and 27.1 for women; the respective margins of error were 0.6 and 0.4 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Memphis city | 400 |
For Tennessee, the annual chart records 606 in 2007, 489 in 2019, 416 in 2020, 669 in 2021, 582 in 2023. Against 2019, Tennessee couples recorded 7.0% more licenses in 2025. Out of 375,664 recent licenses countywide, 2,977 carried a Tennessee address, accounting for 0.79% of the 2021 to 2025 total. The latest-year Tennessee share was 0.74%, against 70,598 licenses in the full county total. The opening 2007 file placed Tennessee at 0.56% of the total, with 606 licenses within the county's 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Before leaving Tennessee, use the marriage license guide to check identification and plan the joint license visit, which costs $102. For your return to Tennessee, 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.