Busiest driving test centres in London, 2025/26

24 test centres in London ranked by car tests conducted in 2025/26, busiest first. They ran 260,795 tests between them, 13% of the Great Britain total. Goodmayes (London) was the busiest in the region with 21,374, roughly 85 a working day.

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#	Test centre	Region	Tests a year	Pass rate	Median wait
1	Goodmayes (London)	London	21,374	43.7%	21 wks
2	Morden (London)	London	15,770	51.0%	14.3 wks
3	Mitcham (London)	London	15,046	47.0%	12.3 wks
4	Pinner (London)	London	14,367	49.7%	23.1 wks
5	Sidcup (London)	London	14,318	58.7%	17.9 wks
6	Bromley (London)	London	13,228	52.9%	9.3 wks
7	Chingford (London)	London	13,120	39.9%	9.6 wks
8	Isleworth (Fleming Way)	London	12,687	50.4%	16.3 wks
9	Barnet (London)	London	12,397	49.9%	21.1 wks
10	West Wickham (London)	London	12,249	51.6%	10.6 wks
11	Wood Green (London)	London	11,379	46.8%	12.6 wks
12	Hendon (London)	London	11,086	51.4%	11.1 wks
13	Tolworth (London)	London	10,164	53.6%	10.3 wks
14	Tottenham	London	9,844	48.9%	10.3 wks
15	Mill Hill (London)	London	9,797	51.4%	14.7 wks
16	Hornchurch (London)	London	8,694	46.3%	23 wks
17	Southall (London)	London	8,543	44.8%	12.3 wks
18	Enfield (Innova Business Park)	London	8,412	53.9%	20 wks
19	Wanstead (London)	London	8,258	44.4%	20.3 wks
20	Greenford (London)	London	7,222	41.4%	10.7 wks
21	Yeading (London)	London	6,735	52.8%	12.6 wks
22	Uxbridge (London)	London	6,051	52.3%	11.8 wks
23	Erith (London)	London	5,809	51.6%	7 wks
24	Belvedere (London)	London	4,245	40.5%	9.4 wks

What test volume tells you

A centre’s size is set by how many examiners work there and how many test slots they run each day, not by how many people want to book. Demand is what varies, so a busy centre is not automatically a slow one: it may simply be a large site serving a large city. In August 2026 the busiest quarter of centres had a median wait of 11.1 weeks and the quietest quarter 15.6 weeks, so volume on its own is a poor guide to how long you will wait. What does move the wait is a mismatch between a centre’s capacity and its catchment, which is why two neighbouring centres can differ by months.

Volume matters more for reading the pass rate. A rate calculated from a few thousand tests is stable, and a change of two or three points between years is a real change. A rate from a few hundred is not. At 200 tests a year the 95% margin around a published rate is roughly 7 points either way, from sampling alone. The quietest centre in this table, Isles of Scilly, ran 8 tests in the whole year. That is why our pass rate table drops centres under 100 tests altogether. If you are comparing a small rural centre with a large urban one, treat a few points as noise and look at several years instead.

Every centre in the country is on the national volume table, and addresses, waiting times and route notes for these centres are in the London test centre directory.