Ontario DriveTest, 2022 data year
Espanola
The release names this centre and its results, and no municipality for it. Until a release arrives with locations attached, this page cannot say which town it is in, so it stays out of search results rather than guessing.
What the release records for this centre
Road test pass rate
83.34%
Recorded at Espanola in the 2022 data year
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Road tests counted
3,043
Tests recorded against this centre in the release
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Rank by pass rate
5 of 65
Highest pass rate first, with tied centres sharing a rank
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Distance from the median
+10.03 points
Against a median of 73.31% computed from the released rows
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Two of these come straight from the release. The distance from the median is arithmetic we do over its rows, and it carries a source line that says so. Every figure covers the 2022 data year.
Espanola passed 83.34% of the road tests it ran in the 2022 data year. That is one of the highest pass rates in the release, and it sits well above the middle of the release.
Where Espanola sits in the release
The middle of the 2022 release is 73.31%, which is the pass rate of the row that lands in the middle when all 65 of them are lined up. On that measure Espanola is +10.03 percentage points away from the middle. It is one of the quieter places in the release, so that rate rests on a small number of tests and can move a long way on a handful of results.
The whole release runs from 88.13% at Bancroft down to 59.90% at Brampton, a spread of 28.23 percentage points. That range is the reason a single provincial figure tells you so little about the test you are actually going to sit.
Espanola against the centres either side of it in the 2022 release, with the median of the release as the last row.
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27| Rank | Test centre | Pass rate | Gap to the median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Kapuskasing | 86.84% | +13.53 |
| 4 | North Bay | 83.78% | +10.47 |
| 5 | Espanola | 83.34% | +10.03 |
| 6 | Walkerton | 82.81% | +9.50 |
| 7 | Timmins | 82.64% | +9.33 |
| Middle | Median of the release, our own arithmetic | 73.31% | 0.00 |
What the release says about this place, and what it leaves out
It carries no street address, no opening hours and no map coordinate for this centre, so this page prints none of those. Guessing them from a search result would put an unsourced fact next to sourced ones, and the whole point of the data on this site is that you can tell those apart. When a newer release comes back with locations attached, they land here.
What this number is and is not
The provincial auditor general found drivers travelling away from their home centre to test somewhere with better odds, and put the difference for one such pair at 22 percentage points. Reading a table and driving an extra hour is a choice people already make. What it cannot do is tell you your own chance of passing: the figure on this page describes everyone who tested here in one year, not you.
Sources
The pass rate, the test count and the rank come from the release. The median and the distance from it are arithmetic we do over the rows of that release, and they carry a source line that says so.
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)
Verified 2026-08-27
Covers the 2022 data year.
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)
Verified 2026-08-27
Median and volume weighted figures are our own arithmetic over the per centre rows in that release, not numbers the release states.
Office of the Auditor General of Ontario, value for money audit of DriveTest (2023)
Verified 2026-08-27
Figures as published in the audit, with a follow up review published in 2025.