Driving Test Pass Rates in Wakefield
Wakefield has 3 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 46.7% 2 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 Wakefield
Wakefield is an English city served by a small group of 3 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 121.6K 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, Wakefield sits a little below the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 46.7% trails the UK figure by 2 percentage points, suggesting routes here may be modestly more demanding than the national norm.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 22.1 percentage points: Wakefield leads at 68.8% (2024-25), while Wakefield sits at 46.7%. 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.
Wakefield vs the UK average
Wakefield below the UK average pass rate by 2 percentage points. Pass rates in Wakefield sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Wakefield
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Pass rate by gender across Wakefield
Across Wakefield's test centres, men pass at 54.9% and women at 45.7% a gender gap of 9.2 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 Wakefield is Wakefield at 68.8% (2024-25), and the toughest is Wakefield at 46.7% (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. 62.8K passes recorded across 3 Wakefield centres.