Driving Test Pass Rates in Blackburn with Darwen
Blackburn with Darwen has 3 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 47.8% 0.9 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 Blackburn with Darwen
Blackburn with Darwen is an English city served by a small group of 3 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 134.4K 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, Blackburn with Darwen tracks the UK national average closely. With a city-wide car pass rate of 47.8%, within a percentage point of the 48.7% UK figure, candidates here can expect a typical level of difficulty.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 30.5 percentage points: Blackburn with Darwen leads at 78.3% (2024-25), while Blackburn with Darwen sits at 47.8%. 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.
Blackburn with Darwen vs the UK average
Blackburn with Darwen below the UK average pass rate by 0.9 percentage points. Pass rates in Blackburn with Darwen sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Blackburn with Darwen
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Pass rate by gender across Blackburn with Darwen
Across Blackburn with Darwen's test centres, men pass at 54.5% and women at 45.5% a gender gap of 9 percentage points in favour of male candidates. Across the UK, the gap is around 5 percentage points on average.
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All test centres in Blackburn with Darwen
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 Blackburn with Darwen is Blackburn with Darwen at 78.3% (2024-25), and the toughest is Blackburn with Darwen at 47.8% (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. 68.3K passes recorded across 3 Blackburn with Darwen centres.