Driving Test Pass Rates in Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill has 3 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 43.2% 5.5 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 Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill is a small group of 3 DVSA practical driving test centres in English territory. Together, these centres have processed 177.5K 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, Burgess Hill runs noticeably behind the UK average. The volume-weighted city car pass rate of 43.2% trails the UK figure by 5.5 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 33.2 percentage points: Burgess Hill leads at 76.4% (2024-25), while Burgess Hill sits at 43.2%. 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.
Burgess Hill vs the UK average
Burgess Hill below the UK average pass rate by 5.5 percentage points. Candidates here face a tougher-than-average pass rate, which usually correlates with busier urban routes and complex junction layouts.
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Pass rate by gender across Burgess Hill
Across Burgess Hill's test centres, men pass at 56.8% and women at 50.7% a gender gap of 6.2 percentage points in favour of male candidates. Across the UK, the gap is around 5 percentage points on average.
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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 Burgess Hill is Burgess Hill at 76.4% (2024-25), and the toughest is Burgess Hill at 43.2% (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. 97.9K passes recorded across 3 Burgess Hill centres.