KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) - The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles released new data regarding the average wait time that people have to wait while at the DMV.
The average wait time across the state is two hours and 45 minutes; however, individual locations vary significantly.
The longest wait is at the Cary location in Wake County, which averages five hours and ten minutes, while the shortest wait time is in Jefferson, Ashe County, at around 12 minutes.
Even residents in ENC have experienced hours-long wait times at the DMV.
“We’ve been here for about two and a half hours, and it’s been a long wait,” Kinston DMV customer Caleena Kozee said. “Some people get here at 5 o’clock in the morning, and they have to wait until one to two in the afternoon just to be able to get an ID, licen