South Yorkshire, England

Driving Test Centres in South Yorkshire: 10 DVSA Centres Ranked

10 DVSA driving test centres across South Yorkshire, part of England. Average pass rate 50.2% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
10
10 with 500+ tests
South Yorkshire avg
50.2%
+1.5 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
596.0K
lifetime DVSA

About South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire hosts 10 DVSA practical test centres in total. Catchment runs through Sheffield, Rotherham and Warmsworth, with the network handling 596.0K car tests on record in the published DVSA dataset. Volume-weighted across every centre that has cleared a 500-test sample, the county averages 50.2%, against 48.7% for the UK as a whole.

That places South Yorkshire 1.5 percentage points above 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 Yorkshire sits between Rotherham (77.7%) at the top of the league and Doncaster (42%) at the bottom, a gap of 35.7 percentage points. Urban-heavy routes with multi-lane roundabouts, bus lanes and dense pedestrian traffic typically drag the bottom-of-county figure down, even within a single county.

Top 5 highest pass rates in South Yorkshire

  1. 1
    Rotherham
    Rotherham, 2.6K tests (2024-25)
    77.7%
  2. 2
    Rotherham
    Rotherham, 1.1K tests (2024-25)
    72.6%
  3. 3
    A1 (Salisbury)
    Warmsworth, 1.5K tests (2023-24)
    63.3%
  4. 4
    Sheffield (Handsworth)
    Sheffield, 1.2K tests (2024-25)
    58.9%
  5. 5
    Barnsley
    Barnsley, 7.8K tests (2024-25)
    52.2%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in South Yorkshire

  1. 1
    Doncaster
    Doncaster, 7.9K tests (2024-25)
    42%
  2. 2
    Sheffield LGV
    Sheffield, 1.3K tests (2011-12)
    42.6%
  3. 3
    Sheffield (Handsworth)
    Sheffield, 9.3K tests (2024-25)
    45.3%
  4. 4
    Sheffield (Middlewood Road)
    Sheffield, 9.9K tests (2024-25)
    47.5%
  5. 5
    Rotherham
    Rotherham, 5.8K tests (2024-25)
    51.3%

All test centres in South Yorkshire

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

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