Driving Test Pass Rates in Folkestone
Folkestone has 2 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 45.4% 3.3 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 Folkestone
Folkestone is an English city served by a small group of 2 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 70.5K 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, Folkestone sits a little below the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 45.4% trails the UK figure by 3.3 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 23.3 percentage points: Folkestone leads at 68.7% (2019-20), while Folkestone sits at 45.4%. 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.
Folkestone vs the UK average
Folkestone below the UK average pass rate by 3.3 percentage points. Pass rates in Folkestone sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Folkestone
Pass rate by gender across Folkestone
Across Folkestone's test centres, men pass at 46.7% and women at 42.9% a gender gap of 3.9 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 Folkestone
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 Folkestone is Folkestone at 68.7% (2019-20), and the toughest is Folkestone at 45.4% (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. 31.6K passes recorded across 2 Folkestone centres.