North Ayrshire, Scotland

Driving Test Centres in North Ayrshire: 3 DVSA Centres Ranked

3 DVSA driving test centres across North Ayrshire, part of Scotland. Average pass rate 53.5% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
3
3 with 500+ tests
North Ayrshire avg
53.5%
+4.8 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
58.3K
lifetime DVSA

About North Ayrshire

North Ayrshire, Scotland runs 3 DVSA driving test centres. Dreghorn, Brodick and Irvine anchor the catchment, and the wider network has logged 58.3K tests in the public DVSA release. The county's volume-weighted current pass rate is 53.5%, set against the UK figure of 48.7%.

North Ayrshire runs 4.8 pp above the UK pass rate (2024-25 DVSA data). The pattern across most counties is similar, the busiest centres in the larger towns tend to under-perform the quieter centres in surrounding districts. Use the rankings below to see where individual centres sit, not just where the county average lands.

The headline spread within North Ayrshire sits between Dreghorn LGV (75.1%) at the top of the league and Irvine (49.2%) at the bottom, a gap of 25.9 percentage points. That spread is typical of Scotland, where rural routes with quieter junctions pull the headline figure higher than urban-heavy English counties.

Top 5 highest pass rates in North Ayrshire

  1. 1
    Dreghorn LGV
    Dreghorn, 775 tests (2024-25)
    75.1%
  2. 2
    Brodick (Isle of Arran)
    Brodick, 647 tests (2024-25)
    62.4%
  3. 3
    Irvine
    Irvine, 5.3K tests (2024-25)
    49.2%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in North Ayrshire

  1. 1
    Irvine
    Irvine, 5.3K tests (2024-25)
    49.2%
  2. 2
    Brodick (Isle of Arran)
    Brodick, 647 tests (2024-25)
    62.4%
  3. 3
    Dreghorn LGV
    Dreghorn, 775 tests (2024-25)
    75.1%

All test centres in North Ayrshire

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

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