Leicester Wigston Driving Test Centre Pass Rate 2024-25

Leicester (Wigston) is the DVSA practical car testing centre in Wigston, a suburb immediately south of Leicester city centre, serving candidates from across the Leicester urban area. It is one of two DVSA practical test sites in Leicester alongside Cannock Street, which returned 37.7% in 2024-25 and is the lower-rate of the two. With 16,361 tests in 2024-25, Wigston is a high-volume site and its 43.9% figure reflects a large and broadly representative candidate pool.

The first-time pass rate of 42.6% is 1.3 percentage points below the overall figure, which is consistent with the typical national pattern: retakers who have experienced the test before pass at a marginally higher rate. The gender gap of 1.2 points (men 44.4%, women 43.2%) is smaller than the national gap of 1.9 points, suggesting that male and female candidates at Wigston are performing on more equal terms than the UK norm.

#Pass rate history at Leicester (Wigston): 2017-18 to 2024-25

The pass rate at Wigston has been stable in the low 40s across the entire published record. The slight improvement from 41.9% in 2019-20 to 43.9% in 2024-25 mirrors a national trend of post-pandemic recovery in pass rates. The centre has not been above 44% in the published data, and has not been below 41% since 2019-20. Test volume has risen from around 10,000 to 16,361 over this period, but the pass rate has remained broadly unchanged despite the larger candidate pool.

#How Leicester (Wigston) compares to nearby centres

Melton Mowbray at 63.9% is 13.6 miles from Wigston and stands 20 percentage points above it, a gap large enough to represent a material difference in a candidate's statistical odds. With 2,486 tests it is a smaller centre, so availability may be more limited, but it is worth checking for candidates willing to travel and whose lesson routes have not already been locked to the Leicester test area roads. Nuneaton at 52.5% and 16.1 miles is another realistic alternative for candidates in the south of Leicester. Hinckley at 12 miles clears the national average. Loughborough at 10.4 miles is almost identical to Wigston at 43.7%.

#Preparing for the Leicester Wigston test

Wigston test routes use the residential streets of Wigston and South Wigston, sections of the A50 and A5199, and suburban road networks toward Oadby and Blaby. Routes typically include A-road junctions, residential roundabouts, and pedestrian crossing points. The Oadby area, to the north-east of the test centre, is a common element of routes and requires confident handling of mini-roundabouts and Give Way junctions on roads with moderate traffic.

The nationally most common serious fault categories (observation at junctions, mirror use and roundabout control) are all relevant to the Wigston road environment. Practising junction observation and emerging-from-Give-Way sequences on the local A-road network, not just on quiet practice roads, is the most direct preparation for the test routes from this site.

#Sources and further reading

The figures, fees, and procedures referenced in this article are verifiable on the official gov.uk pages below. PassRates.uk is built on the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s open data, published under the Open Government Licence.

• Driving test (gov.uk)
• Find a driving test centre (gov.uk)
• Driving test and theory test data, cars (gov.uk)
• Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (gov.uk)
• Open Government Licence v3.0 (nationalarchives.gov.uk)