Ontario DriveTest, 2022 data year
Ottawa Temporary Site
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
77.04%
Recorded at Ottawa Temporary Site in the 2022 data year
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Road tests counted
12,194
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
16 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
+3.73 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.
Ottawa Temporary Site passed 77.04% of the road tests it ran in the 2022 data year. That is in the upper third of the release, and it sits above the middle of the release.
Where Ottawa Temporary Site 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 Ottawa Temporary Site is +3.73 percentage points away from the middle. It ran fewer road tests than the middle of the release, so a small change in outcomes moves its rate more than it would at a busy centre.
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.
Ottawa Temporary Site 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Stratford | 78.25% | +4.94 |
| 15 | Sarnia | 77.28% | +3.97 |
| 16 | Ottawa Temporary Site | 77.04% | +3.73 |
| 17 | Orillia | 76.96% | +3.65 |
| 18 | Brockville | 76.93% | +3.62 |
| Middle | Median of the release, our own arithmetic | 73.31% | 0.00 |
What the release says about this place, and what it leaves out
The release names the municipality for this centre as Ottawa, which matters where a city runs more than one testing site and the names alone do not tell you which is which.
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.
This is listed in the release as a temporary testing location rather than a named permanent centre. Its results are counted the same way as every other row, and it is ranked alongside them, but we cannot tell from the release whether you can still book a test here. That is why this page is kept out of search results.
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.