Driving Test Pass Rates in Chelmsford
Chelmsford has 2 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 44.7% 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 Chelmsford
Chelmsford is an English city served by a small group of 2 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 87.8K 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, Chelmsford sits a little below the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 44.7% trails the UK figure by 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 7.3 percentage points: Chelmsford (Hanbury Road) leads at 52% (2024-25), while Chelmsford (Hanbury Road) sits at 44.7%. 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.
Chelmsford vs the UK average
Chelmsford below the UK average pass rate by 4 percentage points. Pass rates in Chelmsford sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Chelmsford
Pass rate by gender across Chelmsford
Across Chelmsford's test centres, men pass at 49.9% and women at 46.5% a gender gap of 3.4 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 Chelmsford
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 Chelmsford is Chelmsford (Hanbury Road) at 52% (2024-25), and the toughest is Chelmsford (Hanbury Road) at 44.7% (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. 42.2K passes recorded across 2 Chelmsford centres.