Driving Test Centres in East Midlands: 12 DVSA Centres Ranked
12 DVSA driving test centres across East Midlands, part of England. Average pass rate 52% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About East Midlands
Learners in East Midlands have 12 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from City of Nottingham, Chesterfield and Watnall and surrounding areas, recording 676.6K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 52% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 52% county figure is 3.3 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes East Midlands 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 East Midlands sits between Nottingham (Colwick) (84.2%) at the top of the league and Nottingham (Chilwell) (43.9%) at the bottom, a gap of 40.3 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 East Midlands
Top 5 lowest pass rates in East Midlands
All test centres in East Midlands
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.