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The latest annual total for West Virginia is 99, compared with 95 in 2024. For West Virginia, this represents a 4.2% increase.
The annual record for West Virginia ranges from 61 in 2020 to 152 in 2007.
For West Virginia, the biggest year-on-year percentage fall was between 2019 and 2020: 104 to 61 licenses.
The biggest annual percentage increase for West Virginia was 123.0% in 2021, ending at 136 licenses.
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| License issue year | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 152 |
| 2008 | 148 |
| 2009 | 137 |
| 2010 | 151 |
| 2011 | 148 |
| 2012 | 115 |
| 2013 | 102 |
| 2014 | 111 |
| 2015 | 111 |
| 2016 | 93 |
| 2017 | 110 |
| 2018 | 124 |
| 2019 | 104 |
| 2020 | 61 |
| 2021 | 136 |
| 2022 | 102 |
| 2023 | 114 |
| 2024 | 95 |
| 2025 | 99 |
Across 542 matched West Virginia licenses, the median straight-line distance to Las Vegas rounded to 1,887 miles. Coverage reached 99.27% for West Virginia, joining postal-area centroids or uniquely matched places to the Las Vegas centroid.
The West Virginia month counts peaked in May with 71 licenses, representing 13.0% of recent licenses. Monthly volume bottomed out at 27 in January, a difference of 44 from the May peak. April followed with 69 licenses.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| January | 27 |
| February | 35 |
| March | 36 |
| April | 69 |
| May | 71 |
| June | 56 |
| July | 40 |
| August | 44 |
| September | 46 |
| October | 56 |
| November | 33 |
| December | 33 |
For West Virginia, May's 13.00% share stood 3.60 percentage points above the 9.40% recorded in that month across all couples. The next strongest West Virginia month was June with 56 licenses, completing the leading monthly group after May and April. Adding May, April and June brings the leading three months to 196 West Virginia licenses, or 35.9% of the 546 recent total; those same months accounted for 27.1% of all-origin licenses in 2021 to 2025.
At least one partner had been married before on 379 recent West Virginia licenses, while 167 were first marriages for both partners. Both-first marriages made up 30.6% of the West Virginia total, 19.59 percentage points below the all-couples share of 50.2%.
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| Category | Licenses issued |
|---|---|
| Both first marriage | 167 |
| At least one repeat marriage | 379 |
| Unclassified history | 0 |
The largest age group on West Virginia licenses was 30-34, containing 173 partners. West Virginia's next largest band was 35-39 with 167 people. The 30-34 band represented 15.8% of partners from West Virginia, below the 19.3% in the same band across all couples. Beyond those first two bands, West Virginia had 158 partners aged 40-44 and 137 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 | 44 |
| 25-29 | 137 |
| 30-34 | 173 |
| 35-39 | 167 |
| 40-44 | 158 |
| 45-49 | 134 |
| 50-54 | 119 |
| 55-59 | 79 |
| 60-64 | 54 |
| 65-69 | 20 |
| 70-74 | fewer than 10 |
| 75-79 | fewer than 10 |
For every 100,000 adults in West Virginia, there were 6.96 Las Vegas licenses in 2025, using a Census adult population of 1,421,798.
The provisional 2024 CDC rate for West Virginia was 6.00 marriages per 1,000 residents; applying it to 1,767,402 people gives an estimated 10,604 marriages performed in the state. Alongside that estimate, 95 Las Vegas licenses carried an address in West Virginia.
Census ACS 2024 estimated median first-marriage ages in West Virginia at 27.7 for men and 26.8 for women, with margins of error of 1.2 and 0.8 years respectively.
The earlier West Virginia checkpoints were 152 in 2007, 104 in 2019, 61 in 2020, 136 in 2021, 114 in 2023. Comparing 2019 with 2025 puts West Virginia 4.8% below that earlier annual total. Across 2021 to 2025, West Virginia contributed 546 of the 375,664 countywide licenses, or 0.15%. In 2025 alone, West Virginia represented 0.14% of the 70,598 licenses from all origins. At the start of the series, West Virginia supplied 152 of 107,901 countywide licenses in 2007, a 0.14% share of that year's total.
Plan the $102 license visit
For your own visit from West Virginia, budget $102 for the license and bring the identification listed in the marriage license guide; both partners attend to collect it. To obtain a certificate to take home to West Virginia, allow for the officiant's filing stage, with a deadline of 10 days after the ceremony, then follow the certified-copy guide for the $20 certified certificate once the marriage is recorded.