Driving Test Centres in York and North Yorkshire: 14 DVSA Centres Ranked
14 DVSA driving test centres across York and North Yorkshire, part of England. Average pass rate 59.2% (2024-25 DVSA data), UK average 48.7%.
About York and North Yorkshire
Learners in York and North Yorkshire have 14 DVSA test centres to choose between. The county pulls candidates from The Old Town, Scarborough and Knaresborough and surrounding areas, recording 413.6K car tests in the DVSA dataset. The headline figure is a 59.2% volume-weighted pass rate, compared with 48.7% nationally.
The 59.2% county figure is 10.5 pp above the 48.7% UK number (2024-25 DVSA data), which makes York and North Yorkshire 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 York and North Yorkshire sits between Aberdeen South (Cove) (81.2%) at the top of the league and York (51.3%) at the bottom, a gap of 29.9 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.
Top 5 highest pass rates in York and North Yorkshire
Top 5 lowest pass rates in York and North Yorkshire
All test centres in York and North Yorkshire
Sorted by pass rate, centres with fewer than 500 lifetime tests appear at the end.