Birmingham Driving Test Centre

Birmingham (South Yardley) Driving Test Centre

📍 Birmingham West Midlands West Midlands

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 5.9pts below

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

About Birmingham (South Yardley) driving test centre

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

42.8%

Overall pass rate i

40.5%

First-attempt pass rate i

First-time faultless passes i

14,471

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Birmingham (South Yardley)

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

For Birmingham (South Yardley) in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 45% compared with 37.8% for automatic tests, a difference of 7.2 percentage points.

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

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Birmingham (South Yardley)

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

First-time candidates at Birmingham (South Yardley) passed at 40.5% in 2025/2026, which is 2.3 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 42.8%.

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

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Birmingham (South Yardley)

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

At Birmingham (South Yardley) in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 59.9%. 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 Birmingham (South Yardley)

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

In Birmingham (South Yardley) for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 45.4%, which is 7 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 38.4%.

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

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