Counts use mailing addresses; how we count.
After 4,999 licenses in 2024, couples from Texas obtained 4,466 in 2025. The Texas difference amounts to 10.7%.
Texas couples took out 5,969 licenses in 2007, the highest published annual count; the low was 3,629 in 2020.
The largest percentage setback in the published Texas series occurred in 2020, when 3,629 licenses followed 4,715 the previous year.
Texas recorded its fastest annual percentage growth in 2021: 55.4%, reaching 5,639 licenses.
Read the data table
| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 5,969 |
| 2008 | 5,246 |
| 2009 | 5,182 |
| 2010 | 5,075 |
| 2011 | 5,270 |
| 2012 | 4,983 |
| 2013 | 4,572 |
| 2014 | 4,802 |
| 2015 | 5,150 |
| 2016 | 4,900 |
| 2017 | 4,716 |
| 2018 | 4,721 |
| 2019 | 4,715 |
| 2020 | 3,629 |
| 2021 | 5,639 |
| 2022 | 5,264 |
| 2023 | 4,825 |
| 2024 | 4,999 |
| 2025 | 4,466 |
For couples from Texas, both-first marriages accounted for 10,880 licenses; another 14,313 involved a remarriage. At 43.2%, Texas's both-first share was below the countywide 50.2% by 6.99 percentage points.
Read the data table
| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 10,880 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 14,313 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The most common published ages among Texas partners were 30-34, a group of 9,389 people. Second place in the Texas age profile went to 25-29, numbering 8,497 people. The Texas share aged 30-34 was 18.6%, below the 19.3% countywide share for those ages. Compared with the countywide 42.7%, Texas had a lower under-35 share of 40.9%. The next largest published Texas age band was 35-39 at 8,021 partners, then 40-44 at 6,468, following the first two groups in the recent window.
Read the data table
| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | 94 |
| 20-24 | 2,620 |
| 25-29 | 8,497 |
| 30-34 | 9,389 |
| 35-39 | 8,021 |
| 40-44 | 6,468 |
| 45-49 | 5,409 |
| 50-54 | 4,348 |
| 55-59 | 2,581 |
| 60-64 | 1,627 |
| 65-69 | 794 |
| 70-74 | 365 |
| 75-79 | 133 |
| 80-84 | withheld |
| 85-89 | fewer than 10 |
The busiest month for Texas couples was October, with 2,756 licenses and 10.9% of the recent count. The quietest published month was January at 1,338, 1,418 fewer than October. April followed with 2,391 licenses.
Read the data table
| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 1,338 |
| February | 2,018 |
| March | 2,083 |
| April | 2,391 |
| May | 2,235 |
| June | 2,167 |
| July | 2,276 |
| August | 1,802 |
| September | 2,021 |
| October | 2,756 |
| November | 2,004 |
| December | 2,102 |
Texas's October share of 10.94% was above the 10.33% of all licenses issued in that month, a difference of 0.61 percentage points. Following October and April, Texas couples collected 2,276 licenses in July, the third-largest published monthly group. Across October, April and July, Texas couples collected 7,423 licenses, making up 29.5% of their 25,193 recent total; across all couples, those months supplied 28.0% of licenses in 2021 to 2025.
The median straight-line journey from Texas to Las Vegas measured 1,084 miles across 25,180 matched licenses. Those postal-area and place matches cover 99.95% of the Texas total.
On a population scale, Texas recorded 18.52 licenses per 100,000 adults; the denominator is 24,109,307 adult residents.
Texas's 2024 population was 31,318,578; with the provisional CDC rate of 5.80 per 1,000, that yields an estimated 181,648 marriages performed there. Las Vegas separately recorded 4,999 licenses with Texas addresses that year.
The 2024 ACS puts Texas's median first-marriage age at 30.4 among men and 27.9 among women, subject to margins of 0.2 and 0.3 years.
City origins, 2021 to 2025
| Mailing locality | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Houston city | 2,096 |
| San Antonio city | 1,934 |
| Dallas city | 1,165 |
| Austin city | 1,040 |
| El Paso city | 842 |
| Fort Worth city | 837 |
| Spring CDP | 372 |
| Arlington city | 346 |
| Lubbock city | 337 |
| Katy city | 323 |
| Corpus Christi city | 307 |
| Amarillo city | 287 |
Looking back at Texas couples, the published counts were 5,969 in 2007, 4,715 in 2019, 3,629 in 2020, 5,639 in 2021, 4,825 in 2023. Comparing 2019 with 2025 puts Texas 5.3% below that earlier annual total. Couples from Texas supplied 6.71% of recent Las Vegas licenses: 25,193 within a countywide 375,664 in 2021 to 2025. For Texas, the latest count accounts for 6.33% of 70,598 Las Vegas licenses in 2025. The Texas share at the beginning of this record was 5.53% in 2007, when 5,969 of the county's 107,901 licenses carried that address.
Plan the $102 license visit
If you are arranging your visit from Texas, the marriage license guide covers the $102 fee, identification and collection together at the bureau. For proof to use back in Texas, 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.