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West Fayetteville DMV

North Carolina driver-license office · Cumberland County

Address
831 ELM ST, FAYETTEVILLE NC 28303-4151
Phone
(910) 484-6249
Hours
7:00AM - 4:00PM (Mon–Fri)
County
Cumberland County

Plan for 4:00PM, not 5:00PM. The state lists 5:00PM for this office in its location directory, but its own live wait feed says 4:00PM — and across every day we have recorded, offices stop reporting as open at about 4:21pm. Many stop adding people to the walk-in list before that.

What we have measured here

16 min
Typical wait
Median average wait across every reading while the office was open.
11 min
At closing
The last average wait before they stopped taking people, median across 34 observed closings.
1h 14m
Typical daily peak
Median of each day's peak average wait.
4h 18m
Worst recorded
The highest single average wait in our archive for this office.

Across the days we have watched it, 1pm is the worst hour here (median 43 min) and 8am the calmest (median 4 min).

You do not have to come here

A North Carolina driver license, a Real ID and a renewal can be handled at any driver-license office in the state. These are the closest ones that are measurably calmer:

Where these numbers come from. The North Carolina DOT's own public wait feed, sampled through the day and archived — the state publishes only the current instant, so this record exists nowhere else. How it works · every office ranked · The State of the NC DMV. Data as of 2026-10-08.
Not affiliated with the NC DMV or NCDOT. Independent and unofficial. Confirm hours and document requirements with the official NCDMV before you drive.