Driving Test Centres in Gwynedd: 7 DVSA Centres Ranked
7 DVSA driving test centres across Gwynedd, part of Wales. Average pass rate 63.4% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Gwynedd
Learners in Gwynedd have 7 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Bangor, Pwllheli and Y Bala and surrounding areas, recording 93.8K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 63.4% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 63.4% county figure is 14.7 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Gwynedd 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 Gwynedd sits between Bangor (84.8%) at the top of the league and Caernarfon LGV (54.7%) at the bottom, a gap of 30.1 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 Gwynedd
All test centres in Gwynedd
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.