Fewer marriages, but:

Salzburger Almhütte is fully in line with the wedding trend

(Bild: dpa/Friso Gentsch)

The wedding portals hochzeits-location.info and hochzeit.click, which, with 3,000 locations and over 2,500 service providers, are among the most important information portals for couples looking to get married in German-speaking countries, have analyzed the preliminary data on marriages from Statistics Austria. 

The number of marriages in Austria fell in 2024. According to preliminary data from Statistics Austria, 44,924 couples tied the knot, 931 fewer than in 2023 (- 2.0%). From a regional perspective, there were fewer marriages in eight federal states than in the previous year. The sharpest declines were recorded in Burgenland (- 14.8%), Tyrol (- 4.9%) and Salzburg (- 3.8%). Only in Styria did the number of marriages increase by 2.3%. There was also a decline in the number of registered partnerships: 1,857 couples opted for this form of cohabitation, 98 fewer than in the previous year.

Based on 40,000 wedding inquiries and more than eight million page views, the two wedding portals have determined the most popular locations. The top 3 most popular wedding venues are located in Lower Austria (Franz von Grün), Styria (Winzerhotel Kolleritsch) and Salzburg (Tom Almhütte).

The top 10 wedding venues in Austria:

1st Franz von Grün (Lower Austria)
2nd Winzerhotel Kolleritsch (Styria)
3rd TOM Almhütte (Salzburg)
4th Weingut Holler (Styria)
5. am Reisenberg (Vienna)
6th Weinschloss Thaller (Styria)
7. DasSee event exclusive (Upper Austria)
8th Wallhof - The wedding location (Upper Austria)
9th Luberegg Castle (Lower Austria)
10. jezz AlmResort Ellmau (Tyrol)

The best wedding venues in Salzburg:
TOM Almhütte (rank 3)
The Deantnerin (rank 64)
Mattsee Castle (rank 74)

Marriages in Austria:

2024: 44.924 (- 2,0 %)
2023: 45.855 (- 3,4 %)
2022: 47.482 (+ 15,5 %)
2021: 41.111 (+ 3,7 %)
2020: 39.662 (- 13,8 %)
2019: 46.034 (- 0,9 %)
2018: 46.468 (+ 3,3 %)
2010: 37.545 / 2000: 39.143 / 1990: 45.212 / 1980: 46.435 / 1970: 52.773 / 1960: 58.508 / 1950: 64.621

Highest value: 1947: 75,484 / 1987: 76,205 *
Lowest value: 2001: 34,213 and 1988: 35,361 *
* 1987 was the last time a marriage bonus of around 1000 euros was paid out.

Marriages in 2024 in the federal states:
Burgenland: 1,224 (-14.8%) 
Carinthia: 2,749 (-1.3%) 
Lower Austria: 8,445 (-2.4%) 
Upper Austria: 7,798 (-1.4 %) 
Salzburg: 2,853 (-3.8%) 
Styria: 6,500 (+2.3 %) 
Tyrol: 3,971 (-4.9 %) 
Vorarlberg: 2,165 (-2.3 %) 
Vienna: 9,219 (-1.6 %)