South Carolina SCDMV Branches in 2026: All 65 DMV Offices by City

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Reviewed and updated October 21, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. Every fact on this page was read that day from the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles' own pages and its locations feed, and the official page each fact came from is linked where it appears.

About this guide

Every South Carolina SCDMV branch by city with its address, telephone and hours, what a branch does, how road test appointments and walk-ins work, and how closings are published.

In this guide: All 65 South Carolina SCDMV branches by city, The kinds of SCDMV branches, Hours patterns, Appointments and walk-ins, Holiday closings, Questions about South Carolina SCDMV branches

All 65 South Carolina SCDMV branches by city

The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles keeps a Locations and Wait Times page whose list and map come from the department's own locations feed, read October 21, 2026, and that feed is what this list and every branch page are built from: address, telephone, the week day by day, the branch notice and the service table the SCDMV publishes for each branch.

Every branch carries its own telephone number, shown on its page, and the SCDMV's page groups the branches into four areas, the Lowcountry, the Midlands, the Pee Dee and the Upstate. The feed also still carries the Charleston Lockwood Boulevard branch, whose SCDMV notice says it closed permanently on February 14, 2020 and sends customers to Orleans Road; it has no page here.

The kinds of SCDMV branches

Every office on this list is an SCDMV branch, run by the Department of Motor Vehicles itself, doing both the driver work and the vehicle work: licenses, permits, ID cards, REAL ID, the knowledge and road tests, titles, registration and plates. The service table the SCDMV publishes for each branch says which tests it gives, which it does not, and until what hour.

A few branches are flagged for international customers, where a lawfully present non-citizen applies under the SCDMV's non-citizen page, and some for IFTA and IRP or CDL road tests; each branch page says which flags it carries.

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Hours patterns

Of the 65 SCDMV branches, 65 have published hours; 0 open on Saturday and 63 open on Monday.

Hours in South Carolina follow one pattern: the SCDMV feed gives every branch a Monday to Friday week from 8:30 am to 5 pm, with every branch opening at 9:30 am on Wednesday, and no branch a regular Saturday; two branches, Allendale and McCormick, carry a notice that they open on Wednesdays only until further notice. The service table narrows the day: knowledge tests until 4 pm, walk-in road tests until 1:30 pm and road test appointments from 2 pm to 4 pm where the branch gives them.

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Appointments and walk-ins

The SCDMV takes road test appointments from 2 pm to 4 pm and walk-in road tests until 1:30 pm at the branches that give them, per its road test page; other visits are walk-in, with the live wait on the SCDMV's Locations page and a mobile check-in link on each branch's own page. Renewals, duplicates and records run through SCDMV online services.

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Holiday closings

The SCDMV publishes no holiday list in its locations feed; a closing for a branch appears as a notice in the feed, read October 21, 2026, and each branch page carries its notice where the feed gives one. A branch page names no closing date the SCDMV did not give.

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Questions about South Carolina SCDMV branches

How many South Carolina SCDMV branches are there?
The SCDMV locations feed carries 65 branches in 61 cities and towns, read October 21, 2026.

Which SCDMV branches open on Saturday?
0 of the 65 list Saturday hours; each one says so on its page and in the list above.

Where do I take a South Carolina road test?
At an SCDMV branch whose service table lists the Class D road test, by appointment from 2 pm to 4 pm or as a walk-in until 1:30 pm where the branch gives walk-in tests.

Do SCDMV branches take appointments?
For road tests, yes, in the afternoon; the rest of a visit is a walk-in, with the live wait shown on the SCDMV Locations page and a mobile check-in on each branch's page.

Which SCDMV branches serve international customers?
The ones the SCDMV flags for international customers in its feed; each branch page says whether it carries the flag, and the SCDMV Locations page filters for them.

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