Atherton Driving Test Centre

Atherton (Manchester) Driving Test Centre

📍 Atherton Greater Manchester North West England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 4.4pts below

The national average is combined from all the test centres where Veygo has data from gov.uk in 2025/2026.

About Atherton (Manchester) driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Atherton (Manchester) driving test centre in Atherton, Greater Manchester, North West England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Atherton (Manchester) across demographics, vehicle types, number of attempts, and age. You can find the map location for the test centre and directions here.

Latest DVSA data, 2025/2026

44.3%

Overall pass rate i

45.1%

First-attempt pass rate i

First-time faultless passes i

13,035

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Atherton (Manchester)

Pass rates for automatic and manual car tests, side by side across five years.

For Atherton (Manchester) in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 47.1% compared with 37.9% for automatic tests, a difference of 9.2 percentage points.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Atherton (Manchester)

How first-time candidates perform, including the rate of faultless passes over time.

First-time candidates at Atherton (Manchester) passed at 45.1% in 2025/2026, which is 0.8 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 44.3%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Atherton (Manchester)

How pass rates vary by candidate age, from 17 to 25, in the latest year of data.

At Atherton (Manchester) in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 60.4%. Pass rates generally shift with age, and this chart shows how each age from 17 to 25 performed.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

Performance over time

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Pass rate by gender for Atherton (Manchester)

How male and female pass rates at this centre have changed over the last five years.

In Atherton (Manchester) for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 45.7%, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 42.4%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

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