Driving Test Pass Rates in Manchester

Manchester is one of the larger metropolitan concentrations of 19 DVSA practical driving test centres in English territory. Together, these centres have processed 827.3K 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, Manchester tracks the UK national average closely. With a city-wide car pass rate of 48.5%, 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 29.2 percentage points: Bredbury (Manchester) leads at 70.4% (2024-25), while Rochdale (Manchester) sits at 41.2%. 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.