Malton test centre: 64.3% pass rate, £221 to get through it.

Malton is a small centre by DVSA standards: 876 car practical tests in 2025/26, of which 563 were passes, giving 64.3%. 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 25th of 308 nationally and 1st of 29 in Yorkshire and The Humber.

That is 14.2 percentage points above the 50.03% recorded across all 317 centres, and 13.8 points above the 50.5% Yorkshire and The Humber average. A centre in this band is usually working quieter road layouts with fewer forced lane decisions, not a softer marking standard: the DVSA marking sheet is national.

Turn 64.3% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.56 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Malton pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.56 times, or £96. Add 0.56 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the Yorkshire & Humber rate of £32 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £125. The test cycle at Malton is therefore about £221. Testing here therefore saves about £127 against a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, because the higher pass rate buys back part of an attempt.

Waiting time at Malton ran to a median 10 weeks between booking and test in July 2026, 1.9 weeks below the 11.9-week national median. Across 0.56 expected retakes that is roughly 5.6 weeks of extra queueing before a licence arrives. In the same month DVSA offered 458 standard slots inside the booking window here and 1.1% of them were still free to book.

First attempts track the headline closely: 316 passes from 485 first tests at Malton, 65.2% against 64.3% for all attempts. 22 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 4.54% of them.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Malton has risen by 5.6 points, from 58.7% to 64.3%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 247 to 876 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £42 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 62.4% and female candidates at 66.3%, a gap of 4.0 points across 457 and 419 tests. Automatic tests made up 18.3% of the workload and passed at 58.8%, 5.5 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 54.2% in June 2025 to 80.8% in November 2025, a 26.6-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in Yorkshire and The Humber runs more than five points ahead of Malton on pass rate, so travelling elsewhere is unlikely to pay for itself once you add an unfamiliar route, the travel and the settling-in lessons. The cheaper lever here is preparation on the roads your instructor already knows.