Avoid these Texas DPS offices to get a driver’s license. Wait times can take over an hour

Avoid these four Department of Public Safety offices in Dallas-Fort Worth if you need a driver license without having to wait in a long line.

Cleburne, Fort Worth East, Lewisville and Fort Worth South made the list of longest wait times for new licenses in the state. You’ll have to wait about an hour at each office to get a new driver license, as of July 11.

Note that wait times vary by appointment type and change based on reports from the previous business day. The driver license office wait time provided for each location is an estimate of how long you’ll have to wait from the scheduled appointment time until being called to a service counter.

These are the 20 DPS offices in Texas with the worst wait times to get a new driver’s license:

1. Seguin: 1 hour, 17 minutes
2. Cleburne: 1 hour, 11 minutes

3. Edinburg Mega Center: 1 hour, 9 minutes

4. Beeville: 1 hour, 8 minutes
5. Fort Worth East: 1 hour, 5 minutes
6. Laredo: 1 hour, 5 minutes
7. Lewisville: 59 minutes
8. Fort Worth South: 48 minutes
9. Angleton: 48 minutes
10. Gainesville: 47 minutes
11. Leon Valley Mega Center: 47 minutes
12. Spring Mega Center: 46 minutes
13. Fairfield: 46 minutes
14. San Angelo: 45 minutes
15. Lampasas: 44 minutes
16. Monahans: 44 minutes
17. Georgetown: 43 minutes
18. Austin South: 42 minutes
19. San Antonio Pat Booker: 42 minutes
20. Austin North: 41 minutes

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Dalia Faheid

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

817-390-7132

Dalia Faheid was a service journalism reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 2021 to 2023.