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The latest annual total for Virginia is 532, compared with 565 in 2024. For Virginia, this represents a 5.8% decrease.
At the top of the Virginia series is 2007, with 947 licenses; 2020 sits at the bottom with 311.
For Virginia, the biggest year-on-year percentage fall was between 2019 and 2020: 523 to 311 licenses.
The biggest annual percentage increase for Virginia was 92.3% in 2021, ending at 598 licenses.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 947 |
| 2008 | 781 |
| 2009 | 748 |
| 2010 | 767 |
| 2011 | 702 |
| 2012 | 606 |
| 2013 | 607 |
| 2014 | 586 |
| 2015 | 583 |
| 2016 | 531 |
| 2017 | 520 |
| 2018 | 542 |
| 2019 | 523 |
| 2020 | 311 |
| 2021 | 598 |
| 2022 | 597 |
| 2023 | 516 |
| 2024 | 565 |
| 2025 | 532 |
Across 2,795 matched Virginia licenses, the median straight-line distance to Las Vegas rounded to 2,077 miles. Coverage reached 99.54% for Virginia, joining postal-area centroids or uniquely matched places to the Las Vegas centroid.
Couples from Virginia collected their largest published monthly total in October: 297 licenses, a 10.6% share. At the other end was January, with 132 licenses; October recorded 165 more. April followed with 277 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 132 |
| February | 215 |
| March | 221 |
| April | 277 |
| May | 262 |
| June | 237 |
| July | 207 |
| August | 253 |
| September | 276 |
| October | 297 |
| November | 219 |
| December | 212 |
For all origins combined, the October share was 10.33%; Virginia's 10.58% was 0.25 percentage points above that countywide seasonal benchmark. Third in the Virginia month counts was September at 276 licenses, after the leading October and April totals. Combining October, April and September gives 850 licenses from Virginia, a 30.3% share of 2,808 recent licenses; those same months accounted for 29.1% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
For couples from Virginia, both-first marriages accounted for 1,214 licenses; another 1,594 involved a remarriage. At 43.2%, Virginia's both-first share was below the countywide 50.2% by 6.95 percentage points.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 1,214 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 1,594 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The most common published ages among Virginia partners were 30-34, a group of 1,016 people. Second place in the Virginia age profile went to 25-29, numbering 920 people. The Virginia share aged 30-34 was 18.1%, below the 19.3% countywide share for those ages. The next largest published Virginia age band was 35-39 at 909 partners, then 40-44 at 713, following the first two groups in the recent window.
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| Age band | People |
|---|---|
| 15-19 | withheld |
| 20-24 | 265 |
| 25-29 | 920 |
| 30-34 | 1,016 |
| 35-39 | 909 |
| 40-44 | 713 |
| 45-49 | 578 |
| 50-54 | 460 |
| 55-59 | 371 |
| 60-64 | 189 |
| 65-69 | 110 |
| 70-74 | 53 |
| 75-79 | 17 |
| 80-84 | fewer than 10 |
For every 100,000 adults in Virginia, there were 7.58 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 7,019,802.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for Virginia was 6.00 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 8,819,642 people gives an estimated 52,918 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 565 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in Virginia.
The 2024 ACS puts Virginia's median first-marriage age at 30.8 among men and 28.7 among women, subject to margins of 0.5 and 0.5 years.
For Virginia, the annual chart records 947 in 2007, 523 in 2019, 311 in 2020, 598 in 2021, 516 in 2023. Virginia's latest annual total was 1.7% above the count recorded in 2019. Out of 375,664 recent licenses countywide, 2,808 carried a Virginia address, accounting for 0.75% of the 2021 to 2025 total. The latest-year Virginia share was 0.75%, against 70,598 licenses in the full county total. The opening 2007 file placed Virginia at 0.88% of the total, with 947 licenses within the county's 107,901 for that year.
Plan the $102 license visit
Before leaving Virginia, use the marriage license guide to check identification and plan the joint license visit, which costs $102. For your return to Virginia, 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.