How to read the UK driving test centre map

What the colours mean

Markers follow a simple three-band scale. Green marks a centre passing 55 percent or more of candidates, the quieter routes near the top of the table. Amber covers the broad middle, 45 to 54 percent, where most urban and suburban centres sit. Red flags a centre passing under 45 percent, almost always a busy city centre with demanding routes. The national average sits around 49 percent, so amber is roughly average and green is comfortably above it.

A pass rate is the centre’s, not yours

The percentage is the share of tests at that centre that ended in a pass over the period, a property of the local roads and the mix of candidates who book there, not a prediction of your personal odds. Your own result depends far more on your preparation and how well you know the routes around the centre. A low rate is a signal that the local roads are demanding, not that the examiners mark harder; the DVSA standard is identical everywhere.

Treat the smallest centres with care

A centre that runs only a few hundred tests a year can swing several points on chance alone, so a very high or very low figure at a tiny rural or island centre is less reliable than the same figure at a centre running thousands of tests. We hold the smallest centres out of the rankings for exactly this reason, and the map shows their volume so you can weigh the number accordingly.

Filtering and searching

Use the car, motorcycle and heavy-vehicle tabs to switch between test types, since pass rates differ sharply across them. Search by place name or postcode to jump straight to your area, then compare neighbouring centres side by side. For the full tables, see the easiest and hardest centre rankings; for a single town, the city pages group every nearby centre with its rate and wait, and the statistics overview sets the national picture.