Enfield (Brancroft Way) test centre: 46.1% pass rate, £486 to get through it.

Enfield (Brancroft Way) is a very small centre by DVSA standards: 362 car practical tests in 2025/26, of which 167 were passes, giving 46.1%. At that volume a run of two or three unusual weeks moves the annual figure visibly, so treat the number as a guide to the roads rather than a precise ranking. It sits 254th of 308 nationally and 19th of 26 in London.

That is 3.9 percentage points below the 50.03% national figure, and 2.6 points below the 48.8% average for London. Low pass rates cluster where test routes carry heavy traffic, multi-lane junctions and frequent bus lanes. The examiners are not stricter; the roads give a candidate more chances to make a serious fault.

Turn 46.1% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 2.17 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Enfield (Brancroft Way) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 2.17 times, or £134. Add 1.17 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the London rate of £43 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £352. The test cycle at Enfield (Brancroft Way) is therefore about £486. Testing here therefore costs about £61 more than the same candidate would spend at a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, purely because of the extra attempt the pass rate implies.

Booking is the one thing that is not painful here. The median wait between booking and taking a test at Enfield (Brancroft Way) was 2.4 weeks in July 2026, 9.5 weeks shorter than the 11.9-week median, so the 1.17 expected retakes add only around 2.8 weeks in total. A short queue makes a fail cheaper in practice, because it cuts the months of drift where skills fade and lessons restart. In the same month DVSA offered 18 standard slots inside the booking window here and 11.1% of them were still free to book.

First-timers do better than the headline suggests. Of 137 first attempts at Enfield (Brancroft Way), 70 passed, a rate of 51.1%, which is 5.0 points above the all-attempts figure. 3 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 2.19% of them. The gap says the candidates arriving well prepared are getting through, and the all-attempts rate is being pulled down by repeat attempts.

Since 2017/18 the pass rate at Enfield (Brancroft Way) has risen by 2.1 points, from 44.0% to 46.1%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 191 to 362 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £38 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 47.7% and female candidates at 41.8%, a gap of 5.9 points across 264 and 98 tests. Automatic tests made up 38.7% of the workload and passed at 50.0%, 3.9 points above the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium.

Among centres of a similar size in London, Erith (London) runs 5.5 points higher at 51.6%. On the same arithmetic that is roughly £84 of expected difference. Before moving, price the switch: a new instructor or extra travel for route familiarity typically costs £60 to £120 plus two settling-in lessons, which eats most of a gap under about eight points.