Driving Test Centres in Powys: 3 DVSA Centres Ranked
3 DVSA driving test centres across Powys, part of Wales. Average pass rate 63.1% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Powys
Learners in Powys have 3 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Llandrindod, Newtown and Dorganloch and surrounding areas, recording 41.2K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 63.1% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 63.1% county figure is 14.4 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Powys 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 Powys sits between Llandrindod Wells (74%) at the top of the league and Brecon (58.9%) at the bottom, a gap of 15.1 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 Powys
All test centres in Powys
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.