Rugby driving test centre
West Midlands, England
Rugby at a glance
- Pass rate
- 51.4%
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Average wait
- 8.3 weeks
- June 2026
- Tests a year
- 6,664
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Slots still free
- 5.4%
- Of the 24-week booking window
How Rugby compares
Rugby passes 51.4% of car tests, which is 1.3 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 8.3 weeks, 3.8 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 6,664 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 48.8% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.
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Trends at Rugby
Pass rate
Mar 2026: 48.8%
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| Month | Pass rate |
|---|---|
| 48.8% | |
| 53.7% | |
| 55.9% | |
| 49.8% | |
| 47% | |
| 47% | |
| 54.6% | |
| 48.7% | |
| 45.5% | |
| 55.7% | |
| 61% | |
| 55.6% |
Waiting time
Jun 2026: 8.3w
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| Month | Average wait |
|---|---|
| 8.3 weeks | |
| 6.6 weeks | |
| 5.7 weeks | |
| 6.9 weeks | |
| 9.1 weeks | |
| 11.1 weeks | |
| 5.9 weeks | |
| 5.4 weeks | |
| 7.4 weeks | |
| 9.3 weeks | |
| 7.6 weeks | |
| 14.9 weeks |
Tests conducted each month
Mar 2026: 735
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| Month | Tests conducted |
|---|---|
| 735 | |
| 523 | |
| 589 | |
| 534 | |
| 627 | |
| 660 | |
| 520 | |
| 519 | |
| 585 | |
| 460 | |
| 344 | |
| 568 |
Year by year
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 6,664 | 3,425 | 51.4% |
| 2024-25 | 7,174 | 3,303 | 46% |
| 2023-24 | 5,024 | 2,234 | 44.5% |
| 2022-23 | 4,837 | 2,672 | 55.2% |
| 2021-22 | 4,740 | 2,929 | 61.8% |
| 2020-21 | 1,467 | 782 | 53.3% |
| 2019-20 | 4,002 | 2,038 | 50.9% |
| 2018-19 | 3,804 | 1,750 | 46% |
| 2017-18 | 3,846 | 1,759 | 45.7% |
| 2016-17 | 4,046 | 1,991 | 49.2% |
Where it is
Nearby test centres
There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.
- Birmingham (Cocks Moors)
6 km away
53.5% pass · 3.7 weeks wait
- Birmingham (Garretts Green)
6 km away
44.4% pass · 5.7 weeks wait
- Birmingham (Kings Heath)
6 km away
46.8% pass · 14.7 weeks wait
- Birmingham (Kingstanding)
6 km away
48.5% pass · 23 weeks wait
- Birmingham (Shirley)
6 km away
56.6% pass · 14 weeks wait
- Birmingham (South Yardley)
6 km away
42.8% pass · 11.1 weeks wait
Everything on this page describes Rugby driving test centre. Figures come from the DVSA statistical data sets DRT122A and DRT122F, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Pass rates run to March 2026 and waiting times to June 2026. This page was last updated .
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