Tunbridge Wells driving test centre
South East, England · Upper Grosvenor Road, High Brooms, Tunbridge Wells · TN1 2EB
Tunbridge Wells at a glance
- Pass rate
- 64.5%
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Average wait
- 12 weeks
- June 2026
- Tests a year
- 5,726
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Slots still free
- 5.9%
- Of the 24-week booking window
How Tunbridge Wells compares
Tunbridge Wells passes 64.5% of car tests, which is 14.4 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 12 weeks, 0.1 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 5,726 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 61.9% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.
Trends at Tunbridge Wells
Pass rate
Mar 2026: 61.9%
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| Month | Pass rate |
|---|---|
| 61.9% | |
| 64.6% | |
| 61.8% | |
| 64.2% | |
| 62% | |
| 63.7% | |
| 64.9% | |
| 67.4% | |
| 66.1% | |
| 66.2% | |
| 68.1% | |
| 66.3% |
Waiting time
Jun 2026: 12.0w
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| Month | Average wait |
|---|---|
| 12 weeks | |
| 11.3 weeks | |
| 9.6 weeks | |
| 9.8 weeks | |
| 8.6 weeks | |
| 11.3 weeks | |
| 13 weeks | |
| 10.1 weeks | |
| 11.3 weeks | |
| 12.1 weeks | |
| 14.4 weeks | |
| 14.9 weeks |
Tests conducted each month
Mar 2026: 606
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| Month | Tests conducted |
|---|---|
| 606 | |
| 503 | |
| 523 | |
| 424 | |
| 523 | |
| 499 | |
| 598 | |
| 362 | |
| 401 | |
| 470 | |
| 461 | |
| 356 |
Year by year
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 5,726 | 3,695 | 64.5% |
| 2024-25 | 4,887 | 2,876 | 58.9% |
| 2023-24 | 4,332 | 2,577 | 59.5% |
| 2022-23 | 3,381 | 1,982 | 58.6% |
| 2021-22 | 4,392 | 2,622 | 59.7% |
| 2020-21 | 1,466 | 859 | 58.6% |
| 2019-20 | 4,580 | 2,313 | 50.5% |
| 2018-19 | 4,849 | 2,314 | 47.7% |
| 2017-18 | 5,046 | 2,556 | 50.7% |
| 2016-17 | 5,587 | 2,938 | 52.6% |
Where it is
Nearby test centres
There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.
- Redhill Aerodrome
29 km away
53.9% pass · 8.8 weeks wait
- Bromley (London)
33 km away
52.9% pass · 14.4 weeks wait
- West Wickham (London)
33 km away
51.6% pass · 7.7 weeks wait
- Crawley
33 km away
42.7% pass · 8.5 weeks wait
- Gillingham
34 km away
56.4% pass · 9.3 weeks wait
- Sidcup (London)
34 km away
58.7% pass · 22.3 weeks wait
Everything on this page describes Tunbridge Wells 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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