South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Driving Test Centres in South Lanarkshire: 4 DVSA Centres Ranked

4 DVSA driving test centres across South Lanarkshire, part of Scotland. Average pass rate 46.2% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
4
4 with 500+ tests
South Lanarkshire avg
46.2%
-2.5 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
145.4K
lifetime DVSA

About South Lanarkshire

South Lanarkshire hosts 4 DVSA practical test centres in total. Catchment runs through Low Waters, Lanark and East Kilbride, with the network handling 145.4K car tests on record in the published DVSA dataset. Volume-weighted across every centre that has cleared a 500-test sample, the county averages 46.2%, against 48.7% for the UK as a whole.

That places South Lanarkshire 2.5 percentage points below the UK average (2024-25 DVSA data). Centres within a single county can still differ widely, urban routes packed with traffic-light junctions, bus lanes and complex roundabouts tend to push pass rates down, while quieter market-town centres lift them. Treat the county figure as the network average, not a guarantee for any single centre.

The headline spread within South Lanarkshire sits between Hamilton (67.3%) at the top of the league and Hamilton (39.5%) at the bottom, a gap of 27.8 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 South Lanarkshire

  1. 1
    Hamilton
    Low Waters, 989 tests (2024-25)
    67.3%
  2. 2
    Lanark
    Lanark, 1.8K tests (2024-25)
    55%
  3. 3
    East Kilbride
    East Kilbride, 2.5K tests (2024-25)
    46.4%
  4. 4
    Hamilton
    Low Waters, 5.6K tests (2024-25)
    39.5%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in South Lanarkshire

  1. 1
    Hamilton
    Low Waters, 5.6K tests (2024-25)
    39.5%
  2. 2
    East Kilbride
    East Kilbride, 2.5K tests (2024-25)
    46.4%
  3. 3
    Lanark
    Lanark, 1.8K tests (2024-25)
    55%
  4. 4
    Hamilton
    Low Waters, 989 tests (2024-25)
    67.3%

All test centres in South Lanarkshire

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

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