Driving Test Pass Rates in Swindon
Swindon has 4 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 49.3% 0.6 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 Swindon
Swindon is an English city served by a sizeable concentration of 4 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 146.4K 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, Swindon tracks the UK national average closely. With a city-wide car pass rate of 49.3%, 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 31.2 percentage points: Swindon leads at 80.5% (2024-25), while Swindon sits at 49.3%. 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.
Swindon vs the UK average
Swindon above the UK average pass rate by 0.6 percentage points. Pass rates in Swindon sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Swindon
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Pass rate by gender across Swindon
Across Swindon's test centres, men pass at 57.9% and women at 52% a gender gap of 5.9 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 Swindon is Swindon at 80.5% (2024-25), and the toughest is Swindon at 49.3% (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. 81.7K passes recorded across 4 Swindon centres.