Southend Driving Test Centre

Southend-on-Sea Driving Test Centre

πŸ“ Southend Essex East of England
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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026
National average 48.7% · this centre is 1.7pts below
The national average is combined from all the test centres where Veygo has data from gov.uk in 2025/2026.

About Southend-on-Sea driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Southend-on-Sea driving test centre in Southend, Essex, East of England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Southend-on-Sea 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
47%
Overall pass rate i
47%
First-attempt pass rate i
67
First-time faultless passes i
7,526
Tests conducted i
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All data here is publicly available from gov.uk. Veygo have extracted the last 5 years of data for the Southend-on-Sea test centre.

Transmission type

βš™οΈ Automatic vs manual for Southend-on-Sea

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

For Southend-on-Sea in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 49.5% compared with 41% for automatic tests, a difference of 8.5 percentage points.
Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.
First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Southend-on-Sea

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

First-time candidates at Southend-on-Sea passed at 47% in 2025/2026, which is 0 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 47%.
Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.
By candidate age

πŸŽ‚ Pass rate by age for Southend-on-Sea

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

At Southend-on-Sea in 2025/2026, 23-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 57.6%. 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

πŸ§‘πŸΏβ€πŸ€β€πŸ§‘πŸΌ Pass rate by gender for Southend-on-Sea

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

In Southend-on-Sea for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 46.6%, which is 0.9 percentage points lower than the female pass rate of 47.5%.
Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.
Getting there

πŸ—ΊοΈ Where to find Southend-on-Sea

Plan your route to the centre and arrive with time to spare on test day.

Address
Southend-on-Sea The Tickfield Centre, Tickfield Industrial Estate, Tickfield Ave, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 6LL
Postcode
SS2 6LL
County
Essex
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Nearby centres

πŸ“ Other test centres in Essex

Compare pass rates at other driving test centres in Essex.

Basildon 49.1% Bishops Stortford 51.3% Brentwood (London) 48.5% Chelmsford 55.4% Clacton-on-Sea 48.2% Colchester 50.6%
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