Mill Hill (London) test centre: 51.4% pass rate, £405 to get through it.

Over 2025/26 the examiners at Mill Hill (London) conducted 9,797 car practical tests and issued 5,038 passes. The resulting 51.4% makes it a high-volume centre sitting 167th of 308 on the national pass-rate table and 9th of 26 in London.

That lands within 1.4 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 2.6 points above the 48.8% London average, which makes Mill Hill (London) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 51.4% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.94 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Mill Hill (London) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.94 times, or £121. Add 0.94 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the London rate of £43 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £284. The test cycle at Mill Hill (London) is therefore about £405. Testing here therefore saves about £20 against a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, because the higher pass rate buys back part of an attempt.

A fail at Mill Hill (London) costs time as well as money. The median wait between booking and testing was 14.7 weeks in July 2026, 2.8 weeks above the 11.9-week national median. At 0.94 expected retakes that is about 13.9 weeks of additional queueing, and most learners keep paying for an hour or two a month through it. In the same month DVSA offered 3,236 standard slots inside the booking window here and 4.5% of them were still free to book.

The first-attempt picture is harder here than the headline. 5,120 candidates sat their first test at Mill Hill (London) and 2,575 passed, 50.3%, which is 1.1 points below the all-attempts rate. 105 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 2.05% of them. Budget for the second booking from the start rather than treating it as the exception.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Mill Hill (London) has risen by 7.6 points, from 43.8% to 51.4%. Volume has been steady, 10,529 tests then against 9,797 now. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £123 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 52.8% and female candidates at 49.7%, a gap of 3.1 points across 5,527 and 4,270 tests. Automatic tests accounted for 51.2% of the 9,797 tests and passed at 51.2%, close enough to the overall rate that gearbox choice is a comfort decision here, not a pass-rate one. Month to month the rate ran from 47.9% in April 2025 to 54.5% in January 2026, a 6.6-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in London runs more than five points ahead of Mill Hill (London) 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.