Driving Test Pass Rates in Rotherham
Rotherham has 3 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 51.3% 2.6 pp above the UK national average of 48.7%. The full ranking, gender split, first-time pass rate and centre-by-centre data is below.
About Rotherham
Rotherham is an English city served by a small group of 3 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 130.0K 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, Rotherham runs slightly ahead of the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 51.3% is 2.6 percentage points above the UK figure of 48.7%, suggesting modestly favourable test conditions overall.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 26.4 percentage points: Rotherham leads at 77.7% (2024-25), while Rotherham sits at 51.3%. 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.
Rotherham vs the UK average
Rotherham above the UK average pass rate by 2.6 percentage points. Pass rates in Rotherham sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Rotherham
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Pass rate by gender across Rotherham
Across Rotherham's test centres, men pass at 57.7% and women at 47.4% a gender gap of 10.3 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 Rotherham
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 Rotherham is Rotherham at 77.7% (2024-25), and the toughest is Rotherham at 51.3% (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. 70.0K passes recorded across 3 Rotherham centres.