Driving Test Centres in West Midlands: 16 DVSA Centres Ranked

West Midlands hosts 16 DVSA practical test centres in total. Catchment runs through Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Vauxhall, with the network handling 1.3M car tests on record in the published DVSA dataset. Volume-weighted across every centre that has cleared a 500-test sample, the county averages 45.3%, against 48.7% for the UK as a whole.

That places West Midlands 3.4 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 West Midlands sits between Birmingham (Garretts Green) (76.2%) at the top of the league and Wolverhampton (33.4%) at the bottom, a gap of 42.8 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.