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Winston-Salem North DMV
North Carolina driver-license office · Forsyth County
- Address
- 3637 North Patterson Avenue, Winston-Salem NC 27105
- Phone
- (336) 293-9730
- Hours
- 8:00AM - 4:30PM (Mon–Fri)
- County
- Forsyth County
Plan for 4:30PM, not 5:00PM. The state lists 5:00PM for this office in its location directory, but its own live wait feed says 4:30PM — 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.
How busy this office gets
This is one of 20 offices the state's basic wait feed is blind to. At Winston-Salem North the lobby clock is honest until the lobby fills — then the overflow moves into a text-in virtual queue, and nobody waiting in it, or sent home, is counted. So on the days worth checking, that number is a floor on your visit rather than a measure of it.
The chart below comes from the state's newer capacity feed instead — the one that counts the people waiting in their cars. It's the honest shape of the day here.
Median wait per open hour, from the state’s capacity feed — the one that counts the overflow waiting in cars, across every day we’ve recorded here. An estimate, never a promised wait.
Median wait by weekday, from the state’s capacity feed — the one that counts the overflow waiting in cars. Each bar is the median across 6–7 separate days we recorded here, so a day we happened to poll more often cannot outweigh one we polled less. We do not publish this chart at all until every weekday has at least 3 observed days behind it. An estimate, never a promised wait.
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: