Driving Test Centres in Dumfries and Galloway: 6 DVSA Centres Ranked
6 DVSA driving test centres across Dumfries and Galloway, part of Scotland. Average pass rate 56% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway hosts 6 DVSA practical test centres in total. Catchment runs through Dumfries, Stranraer and Newton Stewart, with the network handling 52.6K car tests on record in the published DVSA dataset. Volume-weighted across every centre that has cleared a 500-test sample, the county averages 56%, against 48.7% for the UK as a whole.
That places Dumfries and Galloway 7.3 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 Dumfries and Galloway sits between Dumfries LGV (71.1%) at the top of the league and Dumfries (47%) at the bottom, a gap of 24.1 percentage points. Rural Scottish and Welsh routes typically include fewer junction-controlled signals than English urban centres, which feeds through to higher pass rates.
Top 5 highest pass rates in Dumfries and Galloway
All test centres in Dumfries and Galloway
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.