South Ayrshire, Scotland

Driving Test Centres in South Ayrshire: 4 DVSA Centres Ranked

4 DVSA driving test centres across South Ayrshire, part of Scotland. Average pass rate 62.8% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
4
4 with 500+ tests
South Ayrshire avg
62.8%
+14.1 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
43.8K
lifetime DVSA

About South Ayrshire

South Ayrshire, Scotland runs 4 DVSA driving test centres. Ayr and Girvan anchor the catchment, and the wider network has logged 43.8K tests in the public DVSA release. The county's volume-weighted current pass rate is 62.8%, set against the UK figure of 48.7%.

South Ayrshire runs 14.1 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 South Ayrshire sits between Ayr (71%) at the top of the league and Ayr (56.8%) at the bottom, a gap of 14.2 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 South Ayrshire

  1. 1
    Ayr
    Ayr, 1.3K tests (2024-25)
    71%
  2. 2
    Girvan
    Girvan, 652 tests (2024-25)
    66.3%
  3. 3
    Ayr
    Ayr, 1.7K tests (2024-25)
    62.4%
  4. 4
    Ayr
    Ayr, 2.0K tests (2024-25)
    56.8%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in South Ayrshire

  1. 1
    Ayr
    Ayr, 2.0K tests (2024-25)
    56.8%
  2. 2
    Ayr
    Ayr, 1.7K tests (2024-25)
    62.4%
  3. 3
    Girvan
    Girvan, 652 tests (2024-25)
    66.3%
  4. 4
    Ayr
    Ayr, 1.3K tests (2024-25)
    71%

All test centres in South Ayrshire

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

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