Blackburn Driving Test Centre

Blackburn with Darwen Driving Test Centre

📍 Blackburn Lancashire North West England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 2.1pts below

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

About Blackburn with Darwen driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Blackburn with Darwen driving test centre in Blackburn, Lancashire, North West England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Blackburn with Darwen 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

46.6%

Overall pass rate i

45.5%

First-attempt pass rate i

101

First-time faultless passes i

12,205

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Blackburn with Darwen

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

For Blackburn with Darwen in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 46.9% compared with 45.7% for automatic tests, a difference of 1.2 percentage points.

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

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Blackburn with Darwen

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

First-time candidates at Blackburn with Darwen passed at 45.5% in 2025/2026, which is 1.1 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 46.6%.

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

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Blackburn with Darwen

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

At Blackburn with Darwen in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 56.2%. 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 Blackburn with Darwen

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

In Blackburn with Darwen for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 48.2%, which is 3.6 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 44.6%.

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

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