Cheshire West and Chester, England

Driving Test Centres in Cheshire West and Chester: 4 DVSA Centres Ranked

4 DVSA driving test centres across Cheshire West and Chester, part of England. Average pass rate 53.9% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
4
4 with 500+ tests
Cheshire West and Chester avg
53.9%
+5.2 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
175.1K
lifetime DVSA

About Cheshire West and Chester

Learners in Cheshire West and Chester have 4 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Chester and Northwich and surrounding areas, recording 175.1K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 53.9% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.

The 53.9% county figure is 5.2 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Cheshire West and Chester 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 Cheshire West and Chester sits between Chester (71.4%) at the top of the league and Chester (46.2%) at the bottom, a gap of 25.2 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 Cheshire West and Chester

  1. 1
    Chester
    Chester, 1.0K tests (2015-16)
    71.4%
  2. 2
    Chester
    Chester, 2.9K tests (2024-25)
    67.7%
  3. 3
    Northwich
    Northwich, 3.2K tests (2024-25)
    54.7%
  4. 4
    Chester
    Chester, 8.0K tests (2024-25)
    46.2%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in Cheshire West and Chester

  1. 1
    Chester
    Chester, 8.0K tests (2024-25)
    46.2%
  2. 2
    Northwich
    Northwich, 3.2K tests (2024-25)
    54.7%
  3. 3
    Chester
    Chester, 2.9K tests (2024-25)
    67.7%
  4. 4
    Chester
    Chester, 1.0K tests (2015-16)
    71.4%

All test centres in Cheshire West and Chester

Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.

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