Lancashire, England

Driving Test Centres in Lancashire: 16 DVSA Centres Ranked

16 DVSA driving test centres across Lancashire, part of England. Average pass rate 53.1% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
16
16 with 500+ tests
Lancashire avg
53.1%
+4.4 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
641.2K
lifetime DVSA

About Lancashire

Learners in Lancashire have 16 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Heysham, Blackburn with Darwen and Kirkham and surrounding areas, recording 641.2K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 53.1% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.

The 53.1% county figure is 4.4 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Lancashire 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 Lancashire sits between Lancaster Training (Heysham) (80.6%) at the top of the league and Simonswood LGV (42.5%) at the bottom, a gap of 38.1 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 Lancashire

  1. 1
    Lancaster Training (Heysham)
    Heysham, 770 tests (2024-25)
    80.6%
  2. 2
    Heysham
    Heysham, 663 tests (2023-24)
    78.7%
  3. 3
    Blackburn with Darwen
    Blackburn with Darwen, 1.0K tests (2024-25)
    78.3%
  4. 4
    Blackpool
    Blackpool, 564 tests (2018-19)
    74.1%
  5. 5
    Blackburn with Darwen
    Blackburn with Darwen, 2.4K tests (2024-25)
    72.7%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in Lancashire

  1. 1
    Simonswood LGV
    Simonswood, 4.5K tests (2010-11)
    42.5%
  2. 2
    Blackburn with Darwen
    Blackburn with Darwen, 8.9K tests (2024-25)
    47.8%
  3. 3
    Nelson
    Nelson, 6.4K tests (2024-25)
    47.9%
  4. 4
    Chorley
    Cowling, 5.3K tests (2024-25)
    48.3%
  5. 5
    Blackpool
    Blackpool, 6.3K tests (2024-25)
    49.6%

All test centres in Lancashire

Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.

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