Bangor driving test centre
Wales · Dill Road, Willowfield, Belfast City District · BT6 9HT
Bangor at a glance
- Pass rate
- 62.2%
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Average wait
- 12.9 weeks
- June 2026
- Tests a year
- 4,032
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Slots still free
- 7.8%
- Of the 24-week booking window
How Bangor compares
Bangor passes 62.2% of car tests, which is 12.1 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 12.9 weeks, 0.8 weeks longer than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 4,032 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 66.7% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.
Trends at Bangor
Pass rate
Mar 2026: 66.7%
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| Month | Pass rate |
|---|---|
| 66.7% | |
| 58.4% | |
| 63% | |
| 60.5% | |
| 59.9% | |
| 60.2% | |
| 60.2% | |
| 58.5% | |
| 65.5% | |
| 64.4% | |
| 68.1% | |
| 66.4% |
Waiting time
Jun 2026: 12.9w
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| Month | Average wait |
|---|---|
| 12.9 weeks | |
| 11.7 weeks | |
| 14.6 weeks | |
| 14.4 weeks | |
| 9.1 weeks | |
| 7.7 weeks | |
| 8 weeks | |
| 8.6 weeks | |
| 9.9 weeks | |
| 9.8 weeks | |
| 10.7 weeks | |
| 15.1 weeks |
Tests conducted each month
Mar 2026: 303
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| Month | Tests conducted |
|---|---|
| 303 | |
| 392 | |
| 414 | |
| 377 | |
| 389 | |
| 339 | |
| 394 | |
| 357 | |
| 307 | |
| 236 | |
| 307 | |
| 217 |
Year by year
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 4,032 | 2,509 | 62.2% |
| 2024-25 | 3,433 | 2,202 | 64.1% |
| 2023-24 | 3,024 | 1,687 | 55.8% |
| 2022-23 | 3,527 | 2,048 | 58.1% |
| 2021-22 | 3,135 | 1,702 | 54.3% |
| 2020-21 | 1,090 | 588 | 53.9% |
| 2019-20 | 4,088 | 2,071 | 50.7% |
| 2018-19 | 4,103 | 2,127 | 51.8% |
| 2017-18 | 4,634 | 2,523 | 54.4% |
| 2016-17 | 5,163 | 2,872 | 55.6% |
Where it is
Nearby test centres
There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.
- Carlisle
5 km away
58.7% pass · 8.6 weeks wait
- Stranraer
66 km away
71.2% pass · 20.1 weeks wait
- Campbeltown
96 km away
71.6% pass · 20.4 weeks wait
- Girvan
99 km away
72% pass · 15.7 weeks wait
- Newton Stewart
100 km away
65.8% pass · 16.7 weeks wait
- Brodick (Isle of Arran)
121 km away
67.3% pass · 19.1 weeks wait
Everything on this page describes Bangor 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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