Tees Valley, England

Driving Test Centres in Tees Valley: 7 DVSA Centres Ranked

7 DVSA driving test centres across Tees Valley, part of England. Average pass rate 54.9% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.

Centres
7
7 with 500+ tests
Tees Valley avg
54.9%
+6.2 pp vs UK
UK average
48.7%
for comparison
Total tests
368.3K
lifetime DVSA

About Tees Valley

Tees Valley, England runs 7 DVSA driving test centres. Morton Palms, Teesside International Airport and Hartlepool anchor the catchment, and the wider network has logged 368.3K tests in the public DVSA release. The county's volume-weighted current pass rate is 54.9%, set against the UK figure of 48.7%.

Tees Valley runs 6.2 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 Tees Valley sits between Teesside LGV (82.5%) at the top of the league and Middlesbrough (48.3%) at the bottom, a gap of 34.2 percentage points. Spreads of 10 to 15 percentage points within a single county are common, the route a centre uses matters far more than the county boundary.

Top 5 highest pass rates in Tees Valley

  1. 1
    Teesside LGV
    Teesside International Airport, 1.2K tests (2024-25)
    82.5%
  2. 2
    Darlington
    Morton Palms, 2.4K tests (2024-25)
    74.7%
  3. 3
    Darlington
    Morton Palms, 2.9K tests (2024-25)
    70.1%
  4. 4
    Darlington LGV
    Morton Palms, 1.1K tests (2023-24)
    60.5%
  5. 5
    Hartlepool
    Hartlepool, 5.7K tests (2024-25)
    49.7%

Top 5 lowest pass rates in Tees Valley

  1. 1
    Middlesbrough
    Middlesbrough, 9.0K tests (2024-25)
    48.3%
  2. 2
    Darlington
    Morton Palms, 6.8K tests (2024-25)
    49.2%
  3. 3
    Hartlepool
    Hartlepool, 5.7K tests (2024-25)
    49.7%
  4. 4
    Darlington LGV
    Morton Palms, 1.1K tests (2023-24)
    60.5%
  5. 5
    Darlington
    Morton Palms, 2.9K tests (2024-25)
    70.1%

All test centres in Tees Valley

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

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