Scottish Borders, Scotland

Driving Test Centres in Scottish Borders: 6 DVSA Centres Ranked

6 DVSA driving test centres across Scottish Borders, part of Scotland. Average pass rate 60.2% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
6
4 with 500+ tests
Scottish Borders avg
60.2%
+11.5 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
30.3K
lifetime DVSA

About Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders, Scotland runs 6 DVSA driving test centres. Galashiels, Peebles and Hawick anchor the catchment, and the wider network has logged 30.3K tests in the public DVSA release. The county's volume-weighted current pass rate is 60.2%, set against the UK figure of 48.7%.

Scottish Borders runs 11.5 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 Scottish Borders sits between Peebles (68.6%) at the top of the league and Galashiels (49.1%) at the bottom, a gap of 19.5 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 Scottish Borders

  1. 1
    Peebles
    Peebles, 1.3K tests (2024-25)
    68.6%
  2. 2
    Hawick
    Hawick, 1.2K tests (2024-25)
    67.8%
  3. 3
    Kelso
    Kelso, 1.0K tests (2024-25)
    64.5%
  4. 4
    Galashiels
    Galashiels, 2.2K tests (2024-25)
    49.1%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in Scottish Borders

  1. 1
    Galashiels
    Galashiels, 2.2K tests (2024-25)
    49.1%
  2. 2
    Kelso
    Kelso, 1.0K tests (2024-25)
    64.5%
  3. 3
    Hawick
    Hawick, 1.2K tests (2024-25)
    67.8%
  4. 4
    Peebles
    Peebles, 1.3K tests (2024-25)
    68.6%

All test centres in Scottish Borders

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

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