This study examined women's age at first marriage and its socio-economic context in a rural area of Bangladesh. Household-level information comprising the socio- economic, demographic and related characteristics of 550 ever married women was collected in 2007. Women and their parents' higher education was found positively correlated to women's increasing higher age at first marriage. Women with higher age at marriage were found to have fewer children than women with early marriage. Logistic regression was applied to analyse the multivariate impacts of socio- economic condition on women's age at first marriage. Women's participation in income generating activities before marriage was found to hinder women's early marriage. These issues along with other related factors should be considered during formulating policies and taking programmes by both government and non- government organisations to control women's early marriage and its holistic negative consequences for the population and development context of the country.