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Banbury driving test centre

South East, England · Mewburn Road, Neithrop, Cherwell · OX16 9PA

Banbury at a glance

Pass rate
41.3%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
20.4 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
9,069
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
0.5%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Banbury compares

Banbury passes 41.3% of car tests, which is 8.8 points below the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 20.4 weeks, 8.3 weeks longer than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 9,069 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 45.4% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

Trends at Banbury

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 45.4%

35%42%50%GB averageApr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Banbury driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
45.4%
45%
46.2%
44.4%
41%
39.6%
41.1%
40.8%
38.9%
39.4%
37%
39.1%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 20.4w

8w16w24wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Mar 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Banbury, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
20.4 weeks
24.3 weeks
20.9 weeks
20.4 weeks
19.7 weeks
15 weeks
18.9 weeks
14.2 weeks
17.1 weeks
16.6 weeks
16 weeks
16.6 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2026: 744

554718881Apr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Banbury, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
744
547
617
671
854
844
888
835
774
770
771
754

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Banbury driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 9,069 3,741 41.3%
2024-25 8,241 3,287 39.9%
2023-24 6,679 2,727 40.8%
2022-23 6,747 2,935 43.5%
2021-22 6,265 2,883 46%
2020-21 1,631 905 55.5%
2019-20 5,264 2,641 50.2%
2018-19 5,005 2,617 52.3%
2017-18 5,468 2,901 53.1%
2016-17 5,536 2,981 53.8%

Where it is

Nearby test centres

There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.

Everything on this page describes Banbury driving test centre. Figures come from the DVSA statistical data sets DRT122A and DRT122F, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Pass rates run to March 2026 and waiting times to June 2026. This page was last updated .

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