Driving Test Pass Rates in City of Nottingham
City of Nottingham has 4 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 City of Nottingham
City of Nottingham is an English city served by a sizeable concentration of 4 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 206.5K 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, City of Nottingham 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 40.3 percentage points: Nottingham (Colwick) leads at 84.2% (2024-25), while Nottingham (Chilwell) sits at 43.9%. 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.
City of Nottingham vs the UK average
City of Nottingham below the UK average pass rate by 4 percentage points. Pass rates in City of Nottingham sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in City of Nottingham
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Pass rate by gender across City of Nottingham
Across City of Nottingham's test centres, men pass at 51.5% and women at 45.9% a gender gap of 5.7 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 City of Nottingham
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 City of Nottingham is Nottingham (Colwick) at 84.2% (2024-25), and the toughest is Nottingham (Chilwell) at 43.9% (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. 101.6K passes recorded across 4 City of Nottingham centres.