York driving test centre
Yorkshire and The Humber, England · Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York · YO32 9GW
York at a glance
- Pass rate
- 54.4%
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Average wait
- 10.9 weeks
- June 2026
- Tests a year
- 9,416
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Slots still free
- 22.7%
- Of the 24-week booking window
How York compares
York passes 54.4% of car tests, which is 4.3 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 10.9 weeks, 1.2 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 9,416 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 58.5% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.
Trends at York
Pass rate
Mar 2026: 58.5%
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| Month | Pass rate |
|---|---|
| 58.5% | |
| 52.7% | |
| 56.7% | |
| 57.2% | |
| 52.8% | |
| 51.9% | |
| 55.2% | |
| 52.5% | |
| 53.2% | |
| 49.9% | |
| 57.6% | |
| 55.6% |
Waiting time
Jun 2026: 10.9w
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| Month | Average wait |
|---|---|
| 10.9 weeks | |
| 10.9 weeks | |
| 11.1 weeks | |
| 8.3 weeks | |
| 8.1 weeks | |
| 8.3 weeks | |
| 9.1 weeks | |
| 10.3 weeks | |
| 9.1 weeks | |
| 9.6 weeks | |
| 8.6 weeks | |
| 7.7 weeks |
Tests conducted each month
Mar 2026: 768
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| Month | Tests conducted |
|---|---|
| 768 | |
| 694 | |
| 799 | |
| 712 | |
| 817 | |
| 838 | |
| 654 | |
| 689 | |
| 1,009 | |
| 822 | |
| 834 | |
| 780 |
Year by year
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 9,416 | 5,125 | 54.4% |
| 2024-25 | 7,121 | 3,651 | 51.3% |
| 2023-24 | 7,838 | 3,995 | 51% |
| 2022-23 | 5,972 | 3,183 | 53.3% |
| 2021-22 | 6,181 | 3,129 | 50.6% |
| 2020-21 | 2,112 | 1,130 | 53.5% |
| 2019-20 | 6,578 | 3,390 | 51.5% |
| 2018-19 | 6,466 | 3,491 | 54% |
| 2017-18 | 6,954 | 3,523 | 50.7% |
| 2016-17 | 6,890 | 3,559 | 51.7% |
Where it is
Nearby test centres
There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.
- Malton
23 km away
64.3% pass · 8.1 weeks wait
- Knaresborough
27 km away
58.5% pass · 9.4 weeks wait
- Leeds (Fearnville)
34 km away
51.8% pass · 7.7 weeks wait
- Leeds (Colton Mill)
36 km away
51.8% pass · 6.6 weeks wait
- Pontefract
37 km away
46.9% pass · 6.9 weeks wait
- Horsforth
42 km away
49.7% pass · 9.4 weeks wait
Everything on this page describes York 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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