Lichfield Driving Test Centre
Lichfield in Lichfield records a 48.6% pass rate against a UK average of 48.7%, with a median wait of 21.1 weeks. This page covers the multi-year trend, the first-time and gender pass rates, and a like-for-like comparison with other centres.
DVSA data last updated July 2026
Lichfield sits in the bottom half of car pass rates nationally (Bottom 37%, rank #203 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Burton on Trent, about 11.7 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 58.6K passed, 58.0K failed, 116.6K total
How Lichfield compares
With a gap of under one point to the national average, Lichfield (ranked 203 of 323 in its category) neither helps nor hurts; treat any difference you have heard about as noise.
Where Lichfield ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
The series at Lichfield is remarkably flat, moving only from 49.8% (2017-18) to 48.6% now, with a total spread of 6.1 points.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Lichfield
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Lichfield in May 2026 had waited 21.1 weeks from booking to test day.
Official DVSA data, May 2026. The median is the time between booking and taking the test; for live availability use the DVSA booking service.
Centre details
Address
Source: DVSA find a driving test centre (Open Government Licence v3.0), captured 2026-05-12.
Tests offered at Lichfield
- car
Accessibility & facilities
Parking and toilet details aren't included in DVSA's published feed. For the current on-site facilities, check the DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode WS13 6RB, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Lichfield sits in Lichfield, Staffordshire. It's a DVSA-run car test centre, and the routes from here work outward into the streets and arterial roads that learners from Lichfield tend to know already. If you're cross-checking this pass rate against other sources, the sample size matters. 116.6K tests over 2017-18-2024-25 is large enough that any rounding you see between sites is just rounding, not disagreement on the underlying data.
48.6% at Lichfield, against a UK car average of 48.7%. That puts the centre within a point of the national figure and ranks it #203 of 323 car centres in the DVSA's network. 48.2% of candidates pass on their first attempt at Lichfield; the UK figure is 49%. The two are close enough that "first-time vs retake" mostly tracks how ready the individual was, not where they sat the test.
All figures shown are aggregated from the DVSA quarterly statistical release covering the most recent reporting periods available. Pass-rate calculations exclude tests cancelled by the candidate or examiner. Sample sizes and methodology are described in the source attribution at the foot of this page.
What learners should know about Lichfield
- Lichfield doesn't deviate much from the national curve, so generic preparation advice (mock tests, mirror discipline, junction observation) applies here in the same shape it would anywhere.
- 116.6K tests through this centre over the published window. At that throughput, competition for short-notice slots is constant, so make a habit of checking the official booking page often.
- Practising the roads around the centre is the preparation that most reliably pays off. Most ADI instructors in Lichfield will know the road types and junctions learners commonly meet near the centre.
- The only legitimate booking route is gov.uk. Anything calling itself a "test booking concierge" is reselling the same slots at a markup, the slots aren't theirs to control.
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On the day at Lichfield
Arrive at Lichfield with about ten minutes to spare and know your parking options in advance, they vary site to site across the DVSA network. The DVSA centre finder maps the centre and its surroundings. With very high demand and waits near 19 to 23 weeks, take any earlier slot the booking service offers rather than holding out. Don't set off without your provisional photocard licence; the test cannot start without it, and your car needs L plates and a working interior mirror. If Birmingham (Sutton Coldfield) is fully booked, Lichfield is the next closest centre, roughly 9 miles away.
Once underway the test takes around 40 minutes and is the same wherever you sit it. The examiner verifies your eyesight at 20 metres, puts one tell-me question to you, then accompanies the drive and asks one show-me question while you are driving. About 20 minutes is independent driving, sat nav or road signs to a named destination, with one of the set manoeuvres and an emergency stop on roughly one test in seven. The drive works through whatever mix of urban and outlying roads sits within about a twenty-minute radius, and at a centre this busy that usually means heavier traffic to read. Across DVSA marking nationally, the fault recorded most often on car tests is junctions - observation, worth drilling on the local routes before your date.
There is no wait for the verdict, the examiner delivers it at the centre. They go over each fault recorded, hand you the DL25 feedback form, and on a pass retain your provisional licence so the full version arrives by post. To pass you need no more than 15 driving faults and not a single serious or dangerous one; 48.6% of candidates at Lichfield currently clear that.
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Data: DVSA quarterly statistical release, released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRates.uk aggregates DVSA centre-level totals across reporting periods.
Edited by Vikas. DVSA data period: 2024-25.