Driving Test Centres in Kent: 12 DVSA Centres Ranked
12 DVSA driving test centres across Kent, part of England. Average pass rate 57.1% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Kent
Learners in Kent have 12 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Herne Bay, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Folkestone and surrounding areas, recording 576.3K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 57.1% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 57.1% county figure is 8.4 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Kent 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 Kent sits between Tunbridge Wells (79.8%) at the top of the league and Folkestone (45.4%) at the bottom, a gap of 34.4 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 Kent
All test centres in Kent
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.