Driving Test Centres in Cornwall: 12 DVSA Centres Ranked
12 DVSA driving test centres across Cornwall, part of England. Average pass rate 47.2% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Cornwall
Learners in Cornwall have 12 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Camborne, Penzance and Bodmin and surrounding areas, recording 354.9K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 47.2% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 47.2% county figure is 1.5 pp below the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Cornwall tougher 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 Cornwall sits between Penzance (78.3%) at the top of the league and Norris Green (Liverpool) (38.7%) at the bottom, a gap of 39.6 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 Cornwall
All test centres in Cornwall
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.