Wrexham driving test centre
Ground Floor, 1 Birchall House, Wrexham Technology Park, LL13 7YP
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Key facts
- Wrexham's pass rate was 51.9% in 2025/26 from 4,819 tests, 1.9 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 13 of 21 centres in Wales (Wales average 52.4%), a mid-table pass rates in the region.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 8.9 points, from 43% to 51.9%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 7 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 16.6 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 13.1 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 6.1 weeks.
Wrexham is by some distance the busiest centre in this part of Wales, taking close to five thousand car tests a year, and the road network around it is the reason it feels harder than the pass rate suggests. There are thirty-nine sets of traffic signals, seventeen mini-roundabouts and eight conventional roundabouts within two and a half kilometres of the test centre, along with twenty-two schools. One of the practice loops on this page crosses fifteen roundabouts in under eleven kilometres. The centre itself is on the ground floor of Birchall House on Wrexham Technology Park, out on the eastern edge of the town, and waits here are short by national standards.
Drive the Wrexham test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 52 km in all, with 48 roundabouts and 127 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Wrexham; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Wrexham from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 52 km · 127 marked turns
- Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
- Street View tour of each route
- Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
- The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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- Route 1 · via Summerhill Road10.2 km loop with 9 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Mold Road.10.2 km · 28 turns · 9 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Ruabon Road10.7 km loop with 10 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Bradley Road.10.7 km · 25 turns · 10 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Bersham Road11.4 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Croesnewydd Road.11.4 km · 26 turns · 8 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Berse Road8.9 km loop with 6 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Bersham Road.8.9 km · 30 turns · 6 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Berse Road10.8 km loop with 15 roundabouts, 1 right turn, 2 left turns and a stretch of Rhyd Broughton Lane.10.8 km · 18 turns · 15 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Roundabouts and traffic signals are the whole story at Wrexham. Thirty-nine sets of lights and twenty-five roundabouts of one kind or another sit within two and a half kilometres of the centre, and every practice loop on this page crosses at least six of them. One loop crosses fifteen while asking for barely any turns at all, which tells you what the drive is actually about: lane discipline, exit signals and approach speed, over and over, rather than complicated junction manoeuvres.
The named ones come up repeatedly. Croesnewydd Road, Berse Road, Holt Road, Queensway, Chester Road, Gatewen Road and the ones serving Plas Coch Retail Park carry the traffic around the town, and the roads between them, Mold Road, Plas Coch Road, Ruthin Road, Watery Road and Bersham Road, are where the signals sit. Getting into the correct lane early, and staying in it round a two-lane roundabout, is the single most useful thing to practise.
Almost nine in ten of the tagged roads near the centre are 20 mph, which follows the Welsh default on restricted roads. That makes the limit changes sharp: you can come off the A525 or a 40 mph link road straight into a 20 street, and the speed has to be down before the sign rather than after it. With twenty-two schools in the same radius, the 20 zones are busy ones.
Quieter driving is available on Summerhill Road, Beacon Road, Chatsworth Drive and Rhyd Broughton Lane, which is where the loops go when they leave the ring of roundabouts behind. There is one level crossing in the area.
Pass rate at Wrexham, 2010/11 to 2025/26
Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.
Month by month, 2025/26
By year and gender
| Year | Tests | Pass rate | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 4,819 | 51.9% | 50.9% | 53.1% |
| 2024/25 | 3,942 | 56.8% | 55.7% | 58.1% |
| 2023/24 | 4,879 | 47.1% | 46.9% | 47.3% |
| 2022/23 | 3,500 | 49.3% | 50.2% | 48.3% |
| 2021/22 | 3,817 | 43.0% | 42.9% | 43.0% |
| 2020/21 | 1,259 | 47.2% | 47.0% | 47.3% |
| 2019/20 | 4,121 | 42.0% | 44.4% | 39.8% |
| 2018/19 | 4,179 | 38.5% | 40.7% | 36.5% |
Wales average 52.4% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Wrexham
Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.
| Month | Median wait | Weeks to free slots | Slots offered | Still free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 7 | 16.6 | 53 | 18.1% |
| Jul 2026 | 7 | 15.8 | 51 | 15.5% |
| Jun 2026 | 5.6 | 8.2 | 58 | 12.3% |
| May 2026 | 8.1 | 15.8 | 47 | 21% |
| Apr 2026 | 10.3 | 24 | 42 | 21.9% |
| Mar 2026 | 13.3 | 20.2 | 35 | 26% |
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Test day at Wrexham
The centre is on the ground floor of 1 Birchall House on Wrexham Technology Park, a business park east of the town centre. It is signed as a technology park rather than a test centre, so on a first visit allow time to find the right building among several similar ones. Wrexham General station is about a kilometre away. Parking for candidates is not published by DVSA; business parks of this kind normally have shared visitor bays, and the safe plan is to arrive early rather than count on a space at the door.
DVSA publishes that this centre provides car tests and ADI part 3 tests. Nothing is published about wheelchair access or arrangements for candidates with a disability, so ring the booking line before the date if either applies to you.
After the licence check and the insurance declaration, the eyesight check is done outside on a parked number plate. Waits here are among the shorter ones in Wales and roughly thirty per cent of the slots in the booking window were unbooked in the latest figures, so if your date does not suit, checking GOV.UK again for something earlier is realistic rather than wishful.
What DVSA publishes about Wrexham
Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.
- Tests conducted here
- carADI part 3
- Wheelchair access
- Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
Learner reports from Wrexham
No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.
What examiners mark most often
DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Wrexham.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Ground Floor, 1 Birchall House, Wrexham Technology ParkWrexham LL13 7YP
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Wrexham
- Is Wrexham an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 51.9% of car tests were passed there in 2025/26, against 50.0% nationally. Pass rates reflect the local roads and who takes tests there as much as the examiners, so treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
- How long is the wait for a driving test at Wrexham?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Wrexham was 7 weeks, and you had to look about 16.6 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
- Where is Wrexham driving test centre?
- Wrexham test centre is at Ground Floor, 1 Birchall House, Wrexham Technology Park, LL13 7YP. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
- How many driving tests does Wrexham do a year?
- 4,819 car tests were conducted at Wrexham in 2025/26, of which 2,501 were passed.
Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.
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