Marriage Filing Pulse: Week 38 — September 2026

This week in the counties we cover

MarriageSignals tracks marriage license filings in 19 states across 779 counties. This is the week's read, generated September 22, 2026 from the same live coverage data the coverage page publishes — not from a cached summary.

•5,182 new filings in the last 7 days

•24,790 new filings in the last 30 days

•14 of 19 states filed inside the last 7 days

•285 counties are filing on their own normal cadence

87 counties inside those reporting states have not filed in over a month. They are excluded from the county count above rather than padding it.

Not currently reporting: Missouri (quiet 9 days), New York (quiet 99 days), Washington (quiet 264 days), Connecticut (archive only, newest filing 17+ years old), Virginia (archive only, newest filing 64+ years old). We still hold their historical records, and they are counted in our archive totals — they are not counted in any number above.

Reporting states, ranked by filings

"Counties filing" counts only the counties inside each state whose newest filing is within that county's own expected gap, or at worst inside the last 30 days. A county that has gone silent longer than that is not counted as coverage.

When Texas actually files

Across the twelve complete months ending 2026-08, the busiest month in Texas was October (index 126, where 100 is an average month) and the slowest was May (index 79.7).

This uses only the 11 Texas counties with twelve complete months of records whose thinnest month is at least 40% of its median month. 28 counties were left out because their series has loading gaps that would move the answer. We would rather publish a smaller true number than a bigger one we cannot defend.

What this means if you sell to couples

A marriage license is filed before almost anything else is booked. In the states above, 5,182 couples put their names on a public record in the last seven days, and the ceremony typically follows the filing by weeks, not days. That window — between the filing and the booking — is the only part of the timeline a vendor can act on.

Where the volume is this week: Texas (2,634), Nevada (1,211), Indiana (450).

How to read this

1.Work your own counties, not the totals. A state number is the sum of very different places; the county page is where the decision is.

2.Watch the newest-filing date, not the archive size. A large historical archive tells you nothing about whether a county is filing today.

3.Move on the filing, not the season. Seasonal peaks change how much competition you have, not whether a given couple is reachable.

Generated September 22, 2026 from live MarriageSignals coverage data. Counts are aggregate; no couple is named on this page. Subscribers get the filings themselves, scoped to the counties they pick.