Telford Driving Test Centre
Telford in Telford records a 43.9% pass rate against a UK average of 48.7%, with a median wait of 15 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
Telford sits in the bottom quarter of car pass rates nationally (Bottom 14%, rank #280 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Ludlow, about 24.3 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 39.1K passed, 46.0K failed, 85.1K total
How Telford compares
Telford gives up 4.8 points to the national average and is ranked 280 of 323 in its category; treat that as a route-difficulty signal, not a verdict on your chances.
Where Telford ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
The series at Telford is remarkably flat, moving only from 44% (2017-18) to 43.9% now, with a total spread of 3.6 points.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Telford
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Telford in May 2026 had waited 15 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 Telford
- car
- ADI part 3
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 TF1 7FR, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Telford sits in Telford, Telford and Wrekin, just inside the TF3 4HB postcode. It's a DVSA-run car test centre, and the routes from here work outward into the streets and arterial roads that learners from Telford tend to know already. The DVSA has logged 85.1K tests at this centre over 2017-18-2024-25. At that scale, the year-on-year shifts you see in the chart correspond to genuine changes in how the centre is performing, not statistical wobble.
43.9% at Telford, against a UK car average of 48.7%. That puts the centre 4.8 points below the national figure and ranks it #280 of 323 car centres in the DVSA's network. 42.8% of first-timers pass at Telford, 6.2 points below the UK figure of 49%. If your booking is your first attempt, factor in a few lessons on the local test-area roads.
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 Telford
- Centre difficulty is roughly average at Telford. The same fault categories that fail candidates nationally (junctions, mirrors, observation) are what fail candidates here, in similar proportions.
- Telford is a high-volume centre. Booking pressure is real, check the DVSA booking service daily for earlier slots rather than relying on the headline available date.
- Practising the roads around the centre is the preparation that most reliably pays off. Most ADI instructors in Telford 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.
Other test centres nearby
On the day at Telford
Turn up at Telford ten minutes before your appointment, and check ahead where you can park, DVSA sites vary on that. You can preview the location on the DVSA centre finder (postcode TF3 4HB). Demand is very high and waits are near 19 to 23 weeks, so an early booking plus a cancellation watch is the sensible approach. The examiner will ask to see your provisional photocard licence before anything else, and your car must carry L plates and a working interior mirror. If Shrewsbury is fully booked, Telford is the next closest centre, roughly 13 miles away.
The practical lasts about 40 minutes and uses the standard DVSA format nationwide. After an eyesight check at 20 metres and one show-me and one tell-me question, the examiner sits in for the drive. Roughly 20 minutes of that is independent driving, either following a sat nav set by the examiner or following road signs, and you will complete one of four set manoeuvres; about one in seven tests includes an emergency stop, a frequency the DVSA reduced in late 2025. 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.
The result is given immediately when you get back. Whatever the outcome, the examiner reads through the marked faults and prints your DL25 feedback form; pass and they take the provisional licence to trigger your full one by post. The threshold is the national one, 15 driving faults at most and zero serious or dangerous, which 43.9% of Telford's candidates reach right now.
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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.