Driving Test Centres in Bedford: 4 DVSA Centres Ranked
4 DVSA driving test centres across Bedford, part of England. Average pass rate 55.8% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Bedford
Learners in Bedford have 4 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Bedford and Cardington and surrounding areas, recording 70.8K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 55.8% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 55.8% county figure is 7.1 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Bedford better than average on the headline measure. Within-county variation matters as much as the average, individual centres can sit anywhere from ten points above to ten points below the county number once you compare them side by side.
The headline spread within Bedford sits between Bedford (79.5%) at the top of the league and Bedford (49.9%) at the bottom, a gap of 29.6 percentage points. Urban-heavy routes with multi-lane roundabouts, bus lanes and dense pedestrian traffic typically drag the bottom-of-county figure down, even within a single county.
Top 5 highest pass rates in Bedford
All test centres in Bedford
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.