Northampton Driving Test Centre 2026 Map & Pass Rates

Northampton Driving Test Centre

📍 Northampton Northamptonshire East Midlands

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 3.4pts above

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

About Northampton driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Northampton driving test centre in Northampton, Northamptonshire, East Midlands. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Northampton 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

52.1%

Overall pass rate i

51.8%

First-attempt pass rate i

335

First-time faultless passes i

13,539

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Northampton

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

For Northampton in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 55.8% compared with 45.9% for automatic tests, a difference of 9.9 percentage points.

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

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Northampton

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

First-time candidates at Northampton passed at 51.8% in 2025/2026, which is 0.3 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 52.1%.

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

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Northampton

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

At Northampton in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 67.3%. 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 Northampton

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

In Northampton for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 52.9%, which is 1.9 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 51%.

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

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