Driving Test Centres in Suffolk: 9 DVSA Centres Ranked
9 DVSA driving test centres across Suffolk, part of England. Average pass rate 56.4% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About Suffolk
Learners in Suffolk have 9 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds and Lowestoft and surrounding areas, recording 373.9K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 56.4% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 56.4% county figure is 7.7 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes Suffolk 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 Suffolk sits between Ipswich (88.2%) at the top of the league and Bury (Manchester) (40.3%) at the bottom, a gap of 47.9 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.
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All test centres in Suffolk
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.