EDIT: As of February 2012, the DSA has started to publish statistical data as part of the government’s “transparency policy”. There are three links you can use:
I’ll leave the table below in place for the time being, but if the official data turn out to be reliable then I can get rid of it.
These are the official DSA Test Centre Pass Rates covering the period April 2010 to February 2011 . They should be used for guidance only – a pass rate is not a probability of passing the test. Passing is governed by how good a driver you are.
| Aberdeen (Balgownie Road) | 48.20% |
| Aberdeen MPTC | 52.30% |
| Abergavenny | 56.10% |
| Aberystwyth (Park Avenue) | 53.70% |
| Airdrie | 44.30% |
| Alness | 57.70% |
| Alnwick | 54.60% |
| Arbroath | 57.70% |
| Ashfield | 52.80% |
| Ashford (Kent) | 52.60% |
| Ashford (Middx) | 49.00% |
| Atherton MPTC | 49.30% |
| Aylesbury | 51.10% |
| Ayr MPTC | 48.50% |
| Bala | 48.90% |
| Ballachulish | 50.00% |
| Ballater | 62.80% |
| Banbury | 53.00% |
| Banff | 55.80% |
| Bangor MPTC | 49.20% |
| Barking | 36.60% |
| Barnet | 35.00% |
| Barnsley | 39.50% |
| Barnstaple | 52.40% |
| Barra Island | 50.00% |
| Barrow In Furness | 55.00% |
| Basildon MPTC | 39.00% |
| Basingstoke | 48.60% |
| Bathgate | 48.90% |
| Bedford | 47.50% |
| Belvedere | 38.20% |
| Benbecula Island | 66.00% |
| Berwick-On-Tweed | 57.40% |
| Beverley LVG | 50.00% |
| Birmingham (Kings Heath) | 42.60% |
| Birmingham (Kingstanding) | 37.80% |
| Birmingham (Shirley) | 49.60% |
| Birmingham (South Yardley) | 39.20% |
| Birmingham (Sutton Coldfield) | 43.00% |
| Birmingham (Garrets Green MPTC) | 39.90% |
| Bishops Stortford | 44.60% |
| Blackburn with Darwen MPTC | 48.20% |
| Blackpool | 45.80% |
| Bletchley | 49.70% |
| Blyth | 52.20% |
| Bodmin | 55.70% |
| Bolton | 51.30% |
| Borehamwood | 46.60% |
| Boston | 59.50% |
| Bournemouth | 52.00% |
| Bradford (Heaton) | 30.70% |
| Bradford (Thornbury) | 29.40% |
| Brecon | 55.90% |
| Bredbury MPTC | 46.80% |
| Brentwood | 34.20% |
| Bridgend | 56.00% |
| Bridlington | 51.60% |
| Bristol (Brislington) | 52.40% |
| Bristol (Southmead) | 51.80% |
| Bristol MPTC | 48.30% |
| Brodick (Isle of Arran) | 53.70% |
| Buckie | 56.60% |
| Burgess Hill MPTC | 50.70% |
| Burton on Trent MPTC | 41.60% |
| Bury St Edmunds | 40.90% |
| Buxton | 55.80% |
| Callander | 50.70% |
| Camborne LGV | 54.90% |
| Cambridge (Chesterton Road) | 54.40% |
| Cambridge (Cowley Road) | 50.70% |
| Campbeltown | 67.60% |
| Cannock | 52.60% |
| Canterbury | 42.90% |
| Cardiff (Fairwater) | 51.20% |
| Cardigan | 57.30% |
| Carlisle MPTC | 54.10% |
| Carmarthen | 52.90% |
| Castle Douglas | 45.00% |
| Cheetham Hill | 48.40% |
| Chelmsford | 38.50% |
| Cheltenham | 47.70% |
| Chertsey | 48.20% |
| Chester MPTC | 47.00% |
| Chesterfield | 44.20% |
| Chichester | 52.40% |
| Chingford | 41.10% |
| Chippenham | 52.30% |
| Chorley | 51.90% |
| Clacton-on-Sea | 44.30% |
| Colchester | 37.30% |
| Coventry (Bayton Road) | 35.80% |
| Crawley | 46.00% |
| Crewe | 48.90% |
| Crieff | 58.00% |
| Croydon | 40.30% |
| Cumnock | 53.20% |
| Darlington MPTC | 49.30% |
| Derby (Sinfin Lane) | 50.90% |
| Doncaster | 48.30% |
| Dorchester DTC | 64.00% |
| Dumbarton | 48.20% |
| Dumfries | 46.00% |
| Dundee MPTC | 54.50% |
| Dunfermline | 46.00% |
| Dunoon | 58.70% |
| Duns | 65.80% |
| Durham Meadowfield | 50.70% |
| Eastbourne | 53.90% |
| Edinburgh (Currie) | 43.90% |
| Edinburgh (Musselburgh) | 45.20% |
| Elgin | 52.10% |
| Elswick | 39.30% |
| Enfield MPTC | 39.60% |
| Erith MPTC | 43.60% |
| Exeter MPTC | 51.50% |
| Failsworth | 43.00% |
| Falkirk | 51.00% |
| Farnborough MPTC | 50.90% |
| Folkestone | 46.00% |
| Forfar | 55.40% |
| Fort William | 60.80% |
| Fraserburgh | 57.60% |
| Gairloch | 65.30% |
| Galashiels LGV | 59.90% |
| Garston | 48.10% |
| Gateshead MPTC | 41.80% |
| Gillingham MPTC | 42.40% |
| Girvan | 56.70% |
| Glasgow (Anniesland) | 43.30% |
| Glasgow (Baillieston) | 41.10% |
| Glasgow (Springburn Park) | 40.40% |
| Glasgow (Shieldhall) | 37.90% |
| Gloucester MPTC | 49.50% |
| Golspie | 54.90% |
| Goodmayes | 36.40% |
| Grantham | 57.40% |
| Grantown-On-Spey | 56.30% |
| Gravesend | 48.30% |
| Greenford (Horsenden Lane) | 40.90% |
| Greenock | 50.80% |
| Grimsby | 44.80% |
| Guildford LGV | 49.90% |
| Haddington | 56.50% |
| Halifax | 48.00% |
| Hamilton | 38.90% |
| Hartlepool | 47.00% |
| Hastings | 42.70% |
| Hawick | 57.90% |
| Hayes (Middx) | 42.60% |
| Heckmondwike | 30.10% |
| Hendon (Aviation Square) | 43.90% |
| Hereford | 53.10% |
| Herne Bay MPTC | 45.50% |
| Hexham | 48.90% |
| Heysham | 52.10% |
| High Wycombe | 52.50% |
| Hinckley | 55.60% |
| Hither Green | 38.90% |
| Hornchurch | 39.40% |
| Horsforth | 42.70% |
| Huddersfield | 43.50% |
| Hull MPTC | 44.50% |
| Huntly | 63.90% |
| Hyde | 51.30% |
| Inveraray (Argyll) | 68.10% |
| Inverness | 53.90% |
| Inverurie (Grampian) | 61.90% |
| Ipswich MPTC | 50.40% |
| Island of Mull (Salen) | 68.80% |
| Islay Island | 82.90% |
| Isle of Skye (Broadford) | 71.00% |
| Isle of Skye (Portree) | 59.00% |
| Isle of Tiree | 66.70% |
| Isleworth | 44.50% |
| Kelso | 63.20% |
| Kendal | 64.30% |
| Kettering MPTC | 47.80% |
| Kilmarnock | 43.90% |
| Kings Lynn MPTC | 47.30% |
| Kingussie | 65.00% |
| Kirkcaldy MPTC | 46.70% |
| Knaresborough | 52.80% |
| Kyle of Lochalsh | 64.20% |
| Lairg | 50.00% |
| Lampeter | 63.20% |
| Lanark | 45.50% |
| Launceston | 57.10% |
| Lee on the Solent MPTC | 49.50% |
| Leeds (Harehills) | 34.50% |
| Leicester (Gipsy Lane) | 49.20% |
| Leicester (Wigston) MPTC | 43.80% |
| Leighton Buzzard | 49.20% |
| Lerwick (Shetland) | 69.80% |
| Letchworth | 48.40% |
| Lichfield | 52.40% |
| Lincoln MPTC | 50.50% |
| Llandrindod Wells | 62.70% |
| Llanelli | 53.80% |
| Lochgilphead | 69.50% |
| Longbenton | 47.60% |
| Loughborough | 50.50% |
| Loughton | 40.10% |
| Lower Gornal | 45.50% |
| Lowestoft | 45.90% |
| Ludlow | 50.50% |
| Luton | 40.40% |
| Macclesfield L&MOD | 52.60% |
| Maidstone | 50.60% |
| Mallaig | 73.30% |
| Malton | 63.70% |
| Melton Mowbray | 54.40% |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 55.50% |
| Middlesbrough | 48.60% |
| Mill Hill | 44.30% |
| Monmouth | 55.30% |
| Montrose | 54.70% |
| Morden | 45.50% |
| Nelson | 51.80% |
| Newbury | 50.40% |
| Newcastle-Under-Lyme | 45.50% |
| Newport (Gwent) MPTC | 51.70% |
| Newport (IoW) | 52.20% |
| Newton Stewart | 56.40% |
| Newtown | 53.40% |
| Norris Green | 44.40% |
| Northallerton | 53.80% |
| Northampton | 48.50% |
| Northwich | 54.40% |
| Norwich MPTC | 50.90% |
| Nottingham (Chalfont Drive) | 44.80% |
| Nottingham (Colwick) MPTC | 44.60% |
| Nuneaton | 47.10% |
| Oban | 65.60% |
| Orkney (Kirkwall) | 62.60% |
| Oswestry | 56.70% |
| Oxford (Cowley) | 49.00% |
| Paisley | 39.60% |
| Peebles | 58.20% |
| Pembroke Dock | 53.60% |
| Penzance | 48.50% |
| Perth | 45.90% |
| Peterborough MPTC | 46.90% |
| Peterhead | 56.70% |
| Pinner | 47.60% |
| Plymouth MPTC | 44.70% |
| Pontefract | 42.90% |
| Pontypridd | 52.50% |
| Portsmouth | 47.90% |
| Preston | 51.90% |
| Pwllheli | 55.10% |
| Reading | 48.40% |
| Redditch (Worcs) | 44.20% |
| Reigate | 51.90% |
| Rhyl | 39.60% |
| Rochdale | 39.30% |
| Rotherham MPTC | 46.70% |
| Rothesay (Bute Island) | 61.50% |
| Rugby | 51.50% |
| Sale | 47.70% |
| Salisbury | 48.80% |
| Saltcoats | 51.80% |
| Scarborough | 52.60% |
| Scunthorpe MPTC | 47.30% |
| Sevenoaks | 49.70% |
| Sheffield (Middlewood Road) | 46.70% |
| Sheffield (Parkway) | 50.80% |
| Shrewsbury MPTC | 53.70% |
| Sidcup | 42.90% |
| Skegness | 62.30% |
| Skipton | 46.70% |
| Slough | 47.80% |
| South Norwood | 40.20% |
| South Shields | 48.70% |
| South Uist Island | 61.50% |
| Southall | 43.10% |
| Southampton (Forest Hills) | 48.10% |
| Southampton (Maybush) | 50.00% |
| Southport | 49.60% |
| St Albans | 42.00% |
| St Helens | 51.10% |
| Stafford | 49.60% |
| Stevenage | 40.90% |
| Stirling | 43.90% |
| Stoke on Trent (Cobridge) | 43.80% |
| Stornoway (Lewis) | 55.80% |
| Stranraer | 59.50% |
| Sunderland | 46.10% |
| Sutton (Surrey) | 47.90% |
| Swansea MPTC | 54.20% |
| Swindon MPTC | 52.10% |
| Taunton MPTC | 55.50% |
| Telford | 48.20% |
| Thurso | 54.80% |
| Tilbury | 38.10% |
| Tolworth | 50.30% |
| Tunbridge Wells | 56.30% |
| Ullapool | 58.10% |
| Upton | 47.40% |
| Uxbridge MPTC | 48.90% |
| Wakefield Silkwood MPTC | 43.00% |
| Wallasey | 45.20% |
| Wanstead (Hermon Hill) | 29.90% |
| Warwick | 56.40% |
| Watford | 46.50% |
| Wednesbury | 35.60% |
| West Didsbury | 41.90% |
| West Wickham (Kent) | 50.50% |
| Weston-Super-Mare | 52.00% |
| Whitby | 59.70% |
| Whitchurch | 51.60% |
| Wick | 47.80% |
| Widnes | 43.00% |
| Winchester | 44.60% |
| Wolverhampton MPTC | 49.50% |
| Wood Green | 37.30% |
| Worcester | 48.70% |
| Workington | 50.80% |
| Worksop | 45.70% |
| Worthing | 50.40% |
| Wrexham DTC | 46.00% |
| Yeovil | 54.90% |
| York | 52.50% |
The national average (not including those where one examiner conducts all tests) is 46.38%. Nationally, the pass rate amongst males is about 6% higher than amongst females.