Busiest driving test centres in Yorkshire and The Humber, 2025/26

27 test centres in Yorkshire and The Humber ranked by car tests conducted in 2025/26, busiest first. They ran 184,437 tests between them, 9% of the Great Britain total. Horsforth was the busiest in the region with 12,466, roughly 50 a working day.

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#	Test centre	Region	Tests a year	Pass rate	Median wait
1	Horsforth	Yorkshire and The Humber	12,466	49.7%	10.7 wks
2	Wakefield	Yorkshire and The Humber	11,653	45.4%	7.6 wks
3	Bradford (Thornbury)	Yorkshire and The Humber	10,831	47.8%	6.5 wks
4	Huddersfield	Yorkshire and The Humber	10,563	49.2%	11.1 wks
5	Sheffield (Middlewood Road)	Yorkshire and The Humber	10,442	48.7%	18.6 wks
6	Sheffield (Handsworth)	Yorkshire and The Humber	9,788	44.1%	6 wks
7	Hull	Yorkshire and The Humber	9,706	47.9%	14 wks
8	York	Yorkshire and The Humber	9,416	54.4%	15.1 wks
9	Rotherham	Yorkshire and The Humber	9,134	53.1%	9.5 wks
10	Bradford (Heaton)	Yorkshire and The Humber	8,354	56.1%	15.1 wks
11	Knaresborough	Yorkshire and The Humber	8,301	58.5%	9.7 wks
12	Barnsley	Yorkshire and The Humber	7,737	58.5%	5.4 wks
13	Doncaster	Yorkshire and The Humber	7,334	53.2%	17 wks
14	Leeds (Colton Mill)	Yorkshire and The Humber	6,432	51.8%	8.4 wks
15	Scunthorpe	Yorkshire and The Humber	6,103	45.4%	4 wks
16	Halifax	Yorkshire and The Humber	5,845	45.0%	11.1 wks
17	Pontefract	Yorkshire and The Humber	5,544	46.9%	13.9 wks
18	Heckmondwike	Yorkshire and The Humber	5,471	45.8%	10.1 wks
19	Grimsby Coldwater	Yorkshire and The Humber	5,361	42.8%	7.9 wks
20	Steeton	Yorkshire and The Humber	4,784	52.8%	11 wks
21	Leeds (Fearnville)	Yorkshire and The Humber	4,676	51.8%	9.6 wks
22	Scarborough	Yorkshire and The Humber	3,595	45.1%	7 wks
23	Northallerton	Yorkshire and The Humber	3,244	60.4%	8.9 wks
24	Skipton	Yorkshire and The Humber	3,197	57.3%	11 wks
25	Bridlington	Yorkshire and The Humber	3,027	55.5%	11.9 wks
26	Malton	Yorkshire and The Humber	876	64.3%	10 wks
27	Whitby	Yorkshire and The Humber	557	56.7%	19 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 Yorkshire and The Humber test centre directory.