Driving Test Centres in Devon and Torbay: 7 DVSA Centres Ranked
7 DVSA driving test centres across Devon and Torbay, part of England. Average pass rate 56.9% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Devon and Torbay
Learners in Devon and Torbay have 7 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Exeter, Barnstaple and Newton Abbot and surrounding areas, recording 300.3K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 56.9% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 56.9% county figure is 8.2 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Devon and Torbay 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 Devon and Torbay sits between Barnstaple (83.3%) at the top of the league and Exeter (47.9%) at the bottom, a gap of 35.4 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 Devon and Torbay
All test centres in Devon and Torbay
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.