Driving Test Pass Rates in Salisbury
Salisbury has 2 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 52.5% 3.8 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 Salisbury
Salisbury is an English city served by a small group of 2 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 67.8K 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, Salisbury runs slightly ahead of the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 52.5% is 3.8 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 27.1 percentage points: Salisbury leads at 79.6% (2024-25), while Salisbury sits at 52.5%. 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.
Salisbury vs the UK average
Salisbury above the UK average pass rate by 3.8 percentage points. Pass rates in Salisbury sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Salisbury
Pass rate by gender across Salisbury
Across Salisbury's test centres, men pass at 55.7% and women at 52.4% a gender gap of 3.3 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 Salisbury
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 Salisbury is Salisbury at 79.6% (2024-25), and the toughest is Salisbury at 52.5% (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. 36.7K passes recorded across 2 Salisbury centres.