DVSA figures, April 2025 to March 2026
Driving test pass rates, centre by centre
Calculated from DVSA table DRT122A, the official statistical data set. Across 268 centres with a full year of data, 1,968,348 car tests produced 983,948 passes, a national rate of 50%.
50%
national pass rate
half of candidates fail
63.2%
highest here
Lee On The Solent
34.3%
lowest here
Wolverhampton
A pass rate is not a difficulty score
It mostly describes the candidates who book there: how much instruction and private practice they have had, and how ready they were on the day. Since 9 June 2026 a test can only be moved to one of the three nearest centres anyway, so choosing a centre by its pass rate is neither possible nor worth doing.
109 centres
The centres that conducted at least 8,000 tests in the year, listed alphabetically. Smaller centres are in the DVSA data and in our ranking, but a monthly figure from a few hundred tests moves too much to publish as a page.
- Ashfield57.3%
- Atherton (Manchester)44.3%
- Banbury41.3%
- Barnet49.9%
- Basildon49.1%
- Bedford53.7%
- Birmingham (Garretts Green)44.4%
- Birmingham (Kings Heath)46.8%
- Birmingham (Kingstanding)48.5%
- Birmingham (Shirley)56.6%
- Birmingham (South Yardley)42.8%
- Blackburn with Darwen46.6%
- Blackpool51.8%
- Bletchley51.5%
- Bolton (Manchester)51.8%
- Bradford (Heaton)56.1%
- Bradford (Thornbury)47.8%
- Bredbury (Manchester)56%
- Bristol (Avonmouth)55.5%
- Bristol (Kingswood)51.9%
- Bromley52.9%
- Burgess Hill45.5%
- Bury St Edmunds46.2%
- Cambridge (Brookmount Court)53.8%
- Cardiff (Llanishen)46.5%
- Chadderton46.8%
- Cheetham Hill (Manchester)44.7%
- Chelmsford55.4%
- Chertsey52.9%
- Chester47.3%
- Chingford39.9%
- Chippenham56.4%
- Coventry40%
- Crawley42.7%
- Darlington47.1%
- Derby (Alvaston)51.8%
- Dudley45.2%
- Durham53.2%
- Enfield (Innova Business Park)53.9%
- Exeter46.8%
- Farnborough59.7%
- Featherstone36.4%
- Gateshead37.5%
- Gillingham56.4%
- Glasgow (Baillieston)47.4%
- Goodmayes43.7%
- Gosforth48.4%
- Hendon51.4%
- Herne Bay55.9%
- Hornchurch46.3%
- Horsforth49.7%
- Huddersfield49.2%
- Hull47.9%
- Ipswich62.3%
- Isleworth (Fleming Way)50.4%
- Kettering49.1%
- Knaresborough58.5%
- Lee On The Solent63.2%
- Leicester (Cannock Street)40.2%
- Leicester (Wigston)51.2%
- Llantrisant54%
- Maidstone60.2%
- Middlesbrough47.7%
- Mill Hill51.4%
- Mitcham47%
- Morden51%
- Newport (Gwent)48.9%
- Norris Green (Liverpool)37.8%
- Northampton52.1%
- Norwich (Peachman Way)61.7%
- Nottingham (Chilwell)49.9%
- Nottingham (Colwick)46.4%
- Peterborough52.8%
- Pinner49.7%
- Plymouth40.7%
- Poole53.4%
- Portsmouth52.8%
- Preston56.3%
- Reading55.4%
- Rochdale (Manchester)48.3%
- Rotherham53.1%
- Sale (Manchester)51.4%
- Sheffield (Handsworth)44.1%
- Sheffield (Middlewood Road)48.7%
- Sidcup58.7%
- Slough50.8%
- Southall44.8%
- Southampton (Maybush)50.3%
- Speke (Liverpool)40.5%
- St Helens (Liverpool)40.9%
- Stoke-On-Trent (Cobridge)40.6%
- Sunderland51.1%
- Swansea48.2%
- Swindon51.1%
- Taunton59.5%
- Tolworth53.6%
- Tottenham48.9%
- Upton52.6%
- Wakefield45.4%
- Wanstead44.4%
- Warwick (Wedgenock House)48.5%
- Watford46.2%
- West Didsbury (Manchester)47.7%
- West Wickham51.6%
- Wolverhampton34.3%
- Wood Green46.8%
- Worcester51.9%
- Worthing59.8%
- York54.4%