Lake City SCDMV Branch

Address and telephone

Lake City SCDMV Branch
728 S. Ron McNair Blvd., Lake City, SC 29560
Telephone: (843) 394-7902

The SCDMV lists Lake City SCDMV Branch in the locations feed behind its Locations and Wait Times page, read October 21, 2026, and gives it its own page with the day's wait times.

The SCDMV locations feed places Lake City SCDMV Branch at 33.851337, -79.764667.

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Hours at Lake City SCDMV Branch

The SCDMV publishes the week at Lake City SCDMV Branch as Monday and Tuesday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Wednesday 9:30 am to 5:00 pm, Thursday and Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday closed, in Eastern time.

Lake City SCDMV Branch has no Saturday hours; the SCDMV feed gives every branch a Monday to Friday week, opening at 8:30 am except on Wednesday, when every branch opens at 9:30 am.

Lake City SCDMV Branch closes on the state holidays; the SCDMV publishes a closing for a branch as a notice in its feed, and this page carries the notice where the feed gives one for Lake City SCDMV Branch.

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What Lake City SCDMV Branch handles

The SCDMV lists 6 services for Lake City SCDMV Branch, with the hours each one runs:

• Class D, E, F, M Knowledge Tests, until 4:00 PM
• Driver's License (Class D) Road Test
• Walk-in Road Tests, walk-in Road Test available until 1:30 PM
• Road Test Appointments, appointments are required from 2 pm to 4 pm.
• Motorcycle Skills Test
• CDL Knowledge Tests, customers will not be able to take knowledge tests after 4 p.m. Monday through Friday

Lake City SCDMV Branch is an SCDMV branch office, run by the Department of Motor Vehicles itself, where a driver's license, a beginner's permit, an ID card, a title, a registration and a plate are all done at the same counters; the service table above is the SCDMV's own, saying which tests Lake City SCDMV Branch gives and until what hour, and the SCDMV's testing page says what each test needs. The license guide and the registration guide say what to bring to Lake City SCDMV Branch for each transaction.

The SCDMV's Locations page shows the live wait at Lake City SCDMV Branch, counting the customers who have checked in with the greeter and taken a ticket, and a customer can check in from a phone through the link on the branch's own page.

The SCDMV lists these as not given at Lake City SCDMV Branch: Security Deposit, Class E Skills Test, Class F Skills Test, CDL Road Test, IFTA/IRP, International Customers.

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Appointments and what you can do online

A regular road test at Lake City SCDMV Branch is by appointment from 2 pm to 4 pm and walk-in until 1:30 pm where the SCDMV lists walk-in tests for the branch, per its road test page and the service table above; the rest of a visit is a walk-in during the week above, with the SCDMV's Locations page showing the wait before the trip.

A license renewal, a registration renewal, a duplicate or a record for someone near Lake City SCDMV Branch is done without the trip through SCDMV online services, under the SCDMV's renewal rules; the online services guide says which transactions qualify.

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Other SCDMV branches near Lake City SCDMV Branch

Lake City SCDMV Branch is the only branch the SCDMV lists in Lake City.

By straight line distance from the map point for Lake City SCDMV Branch, the 5 nearest are:

• Kingstree SCDMV Branch, 785 Eastland Avenue, Kingstree, SC 29556, about 12 miles
• Florence SCDMV Branch, 3102 East Palmetto Street, Florence, SC 29506, about 24 miles
• Manning SCDMV Branch, 3721 Alex Harvin Hwy., Manning, SC 29102, about 31 miles
• Sumter SCDMV Branch, 430 South Pike Street, Sumter, SC 29150, about 33 miles
• Darlington SCDMV Branch, 2200 East Bobo Newsome Highway, Hartsville, SC 29550, about 34 miles

All 65 South Carolina SCDMV branches, Lake City SCDMV Branch among them, are on the South Carolina SCDMV branch list.

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Before you go to Lake City SCDMV Branch

For a license, an ID or a REAL ID at Lake City SCDMV Branch take the documents on the SCDMV's United States citizens' checklist or, for a lawfully present non-citizen, its non-citizen page and checklist: identity and date of birth, citizenship or lawful presence, the Social Security number, a South Carolina address proof issued within nine months, two from different sources for a REAL ID. The REAL ID guide and the identity and residence guide set them out for a visit to Lake City SCDMV Branch.

What a transaction at Lake City SCDMV Branch costs is on the SCDMV's fee schedule: the $25 eight year license, the $15 title, the $40 passenger registration for two years, the infrastructure maintenance fee on a purchase, and $1 plus 1.7 percent on a card payment; the South Carolina fee guide goes through them for a visit to Lake City SCDMV Branch.

For a title or registration at Lake City SCDMV Branch bring the county's paid vehicle property tax receipt first, the assigned title and the insurer's name, as the SCDMV's registration page requires; the property tax guide and the infrastructure maintenance fee guide cover the two charges a Lake City SCDMV Branch visit does not collect at the counter.

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Questions about Lake City SCDMV Branch

Where is Lake City SCDMV Branch?
The SCDMV lists Lake City SCDMV Branch at 728 S. Ron McNair Blvd., Lake City, SC 29560.

What are the hours at Lake City SCDMV Branch?
The SCDMV publishes the Lake City SCDMV Branch hours as Monday and Tuesday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Wednesday 9:30 am to 5:00 pm, Thursday and Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday closed.

Is Lake City SCDMV Branch open on Saturday?
No. The SCDMV lists Lake City SCDMV Branch as closed on Saturday.

What is the telephone number for Lake City SCDMV Branch?
The SCDMV gives (843) 394-7902.

What can you do at Lake City SCDMV Branch?
The SCDMV lists 6 services for Lake City SCDMV Branch, the first being class d, e, f, m knowledge tests, until 4:00 pm.

What kind of office is Lake City SCDMV Branch?
The SCDMV lists Lake City SCDMV Branch as a SCDMV branch office.

Can a non-citizen apply at Lake City SCDMV Branch?
The SCDMV does not list Lake City SCDMV Branch as a branch serving international customers; its Locations page filters for the branches that do.

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More South Carolina DMV pages

Other offices and the rules behind them: all 65 South Carolina DMV offices and the South Carolina DMV guide.

What to bring and what it costs before you go: the South Carolina license renewal and the South Carolina vehicle title.

The public records of the same place, kept by the county and the city, not the DMV: Florence County public records and Lake City city records.