Driving Test Pass Rates in London
London has 46 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 48.1% 0.6 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 London
London is one of the larger metropolitan concentrations of 46 DVSA practical driving test centres in English territory. Together, these centres have processed 2.6M 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, London tracks the UK national average closely. With a city-wide car pass rate of 48.1%, 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 40.1 percentage points: Pinner leads at 76.6% (2010-11), while Chingford (London) sits at 36.5%. 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.
London vs the UK average
London below the UK average pass rate by 0.6 percentage points. Pass rates in London sit close to the UK norm; candidates here can expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in London
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Pass rate by gender across London
Across London's test centres, men pass at 47.9% and women at 41.1% a gender gap of 6.8 percentage points in favour of male candidates. Across the UK, the gap is around 5 percentage points on average.
By test category
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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 London is Pinner at 76.6% (2010-11), and the toughest is Chingford (London) at 36.5% (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. 1.2M passes recorded across 46 London centres.