Driving Test Centres in City of Edinburgh: 5 DVSA Centres Ranked

City of Edinburgh hosts 5 DVSA practical test centres in total. Catchment runs through City of Edinburgh and Meadowbank, with the network handling 246.9K car tests on record in the published DVSA dataset. Volume-weighted across every centre that has cleared a 500-test sample, the county averages 49.2%, against 48.7% for the UK as a whole.

That places City of Edinburgh 0.5 percentage points above the UK average (2024-25 DVSA data). Centres within a single county can still differ widely, urban routes packed with traffic-light junctions, bus lanes and complex roundabouts tend to push pass rates down, while quieter market-town centres lift them. Treat the county figure as the network average, not a guarantee for any single centre.

The headline spread within City of Edinburgh sits between Edinburgh (Musselburgh) (69.6%) at the top of the league and Edinburgh (Currie) (43.2%) at the bottom, a gap of 26.4 percentage points. Rural Scottish and Welsh routes typically include fewer junction-controlled signals than English urban centres, which feeds through to higher pass rates.