Bristol Driving Test Centre

Bristol (Kingswood) Driving Test Centre

📍 Bristol Bristol South West England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 3.2pts above

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

About Bristol (Kingswood) driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Bristol (Kingswood) driving test centre in Bristol, Bristol, South West England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Bristol (Kingswood) 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

51.9%

Overall pass rate i

53.4%

First-attempt pass rate i

297

First-time faultless passes i

14,863

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Bristol (Kingswood)

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

For Bristol (Kingswood) in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 54.1% compared with 43.8% for automatic tests, a difference of 10.3 percentage points.

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

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Bristol (Kingswood)

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

First-time candidates at Bristol (Kingswood) passed at 53.4% in 2025/2026, which is 1.5 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 51.9%.

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

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Bristol (Kingswood)

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

At Bristol (Kingswood) in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 64.1%. 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 Bristol (Kingswood)

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

In Bristol (Kingswood) for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 51.8%, which is 0.3 percentage points lower than the female pass rate of 52.1%.

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

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