Driving Test Pass Rates in Birmingham
Birmingham has 11 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 45.3% 3.4 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 Birmingham
Birmingham is an English city served by one of the larger metropolitan concentrations of 11 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 910.7K 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, Birmingham sits a little below the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 45.3% trails the UK figure by 3.4 percentage points, suggesting routes here may be modestly more demanding than the national norm.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 37.4 percentage points: Birmingham (Garretts Green) leads at 76.2% (2024-25), while Garretts Green LGV sits at 38.8%. 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.
Birmingham vs the UK average
Birmingham below the UK average pass rate by 3.4 percentage points. Pass rates in Birmingham sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Birmingham
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Pass rate by gender across Birmingham
Across Birmingham's test centres, men pass at 45.5% and women at 37.1% a gender gap of 8.4 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 Birmingham
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 Birmingham is Birmingham (Garretts Green) at 76.2% (2024-25), and the toughest is Garretts Green LGV at 38.8% (2010-11). 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. 376.8K passes recorded across 11 Birmingham centres.