Eastbourne Driving Test Centre 2026 Map & Pass Rates

Eastbourne Driving Test Centre

📍 Eastbourne East Sussex South East England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 6.7pts above

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

About Eastbourne driving test centre

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

55.4%

Overall pass rate i

56.6%

First-attempt pass rate i

First-time faultless passes i

6,031

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Eastbourne

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

For Eastbourne in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 57.3% compared with 50.2% for automatic tests, a difference of 7.1 percentage points.

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

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Eastbourne

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

First-time candidates at Eastbourne passed at 56.6% in 2025/2026, which is 1.2 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 55.4%.

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

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Eastbourne

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

At Eastbourne in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 65.2%. 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 Eastbourne

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

In Eastbourne for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 54.8%, which is 1.4 percentage points lower than the female pass rate of 56.2%.

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

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