Driving Test Pass Rates in Banbury
Banbury has 2 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 39.9% 8.8 pp below the UK national average of 48.7%. The full ranking, gender split, first-time pass rate and centre-by-centre data is below.
About Banbury
Banbury is an English city served by a small group of 2 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 104.4K tests on record, every result tracked here is sourced from the DVSA's quarterly statistical release and aggregated to give a like-for-like view of how each centre performs.
As a whole, Banbury runs noticeably behind the UK average. The volume-weighted city car pass rate of 39.9% trails the UK figure by 8.8 percentage points, a pattern typical of busy urban centres where complex routes, traffic and tight manoeuvring make the practical test harder.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 32.4 percentage points: Banbury leads at 72.3% (2024-25), while Banbury sits at 39.9%. That gap matters when you book, the same candidate can have a meaningfully different experience depending on which routes they drive on test day. Most learners pick the centre closest to where they take their lessons, but it's worth a few mock runs at your shortlisted centre's actual routes before the real thing.
Banbury vs the UK average
Banbury below the UK average pass rate by 8.8 percentage points. Candidates here face a tougher-than-average pass rate, which usually correlates with busier urban routes and complex junction layouts.
Easiest & hardest centres in Banbury
Pass rate by gender across Banbury
Across Banbury's test centres, men pass at 52.4% and women at 50.6% a gender gap of 1.8 percentage points in favour of male candidates. Across the UK, the gap is around 5 percentage points on average.
By test category
All test centres in Banbury
About these statistics
Pass rates shown above are aggregated across all available years of DVSA quarterly statistical data for each centre. Rates are volume-weighted across the city, larger centres carry proportionally more weight than smaller ones. Centres with fewer than 1,000 tests in the current period are flagged as low-sample to avoid statistically noisy comparisons. The best-performing centre in Banbury is Banbury at 72.3% (2024-25), and the toughest is Banbury at 39.9% (2024-25). Always factor in your own preparation, instructor recommendations, and route familiarity, pass rates are a useful signal, not a guarantee.
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Data: DVSA quarterly statistical release, released under the Open Government License v3.0. 53.7K passes recorded across 2 Banbury centres.