Ontario
Easiest DriveTest centre in Ontario: Bancroft
It measures every centre in the released dataset against the one you pick, using the recorded pass rate and the number of road tests behind it. The operator list supplies addresses, but no verified coordinates, so this tool does not calculate distance.
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| Centre | Pass rate | Road tests |
|---|---|---|
| Bancroft | 88.13% | 4,372 |
| Owen Sound | 88.06% | 4,406 |
| Kapuskasing | 86.84% | 828 |
| North Bay | 83.78% | 4,826 |
| Espanola | 83.34% | 3,043 |
| Walkerton | 82.81% | 7,796 |
| Timmins | 82.64% | 4,372 |
| Kenora | 81.68% | 1,201 |
| Winchester | 81.05% | 1,926 |
| Huntsville | 80.91% | 4,406 |
| London | 79.03% | 37,415 |
| Chatham | 78.89% | 23,596 |
| Belleville | 78.89% | 13,847 |
| Stratford | 78.25% | 9,574 |
| Sarnia | 77.28% | 7,346 |
| Ottawa Temporary Site | 77.04% | 12,194 |
| Orillia | 76.96% | 12,183 |
| Brockville | 76.93% | 3,624 |
| Cornwall | 76.88% | 5,385 |
| Fort Frances | 76.54% | 1,138 |
| Hawkesbury | 75.91% | 5,426 |
| Niagara Region Temporary Site | 75.87% | 16,429 |
| Kingston | 75.71% | 13,393 |
| Burlington Temporary Site | 75.56% | 13,289 |
| Ottawa Canotek | 75.21% | 14,436 |
| Smiths Falls | 75.09% | 12,427 |
| Renfrew | 74.94% | 4,067 |
| Oakville | 74.63% | 43,931 |
| Ottawa Walkley | 73.82% | 37,585 |
| Lindsay | 73.81% | 32,731 |
| Simcoe | 73.48% | 12,902 |
| Kirkland Lake | 73.32% | 491 |
| Peterborough | 73.31% | 30,820 |
| Sudbury | 73.05% | 8,998 |
| New Liskeard | 73.02% | 1,071 |
| Sault Ste. Marie | 72.34% | 4,990 |
| Oshawa Temporary Site | 72.3% | 14,981 |
| Windsor | 72.27% | 23,155 |
| Dryden | 71.67% | 1,320 |
| Burlington | 71.19% | 31,011 |
| Clinton | 70.7% | 12,401 |
| Barrie | 70.59% | 32,932 |
| Sarnia Temporary Site | 69.16% | 2,234 |
| Mississauga Temporary Site | 68.5% | 35,406 |
| Oshawa | 68.34% | 70,265 |
| Port Union | 68.21% | 54,329 |
| Guelph Temporary Site | 67.68% | 20,148 |
| St. Catharines | 67.48% | 28,717 |
| Hamilton | 67.41% | 30,425 |
| Pembroke | 67.18% | 3,891 |
| Mount Joy Temporary Site | 66.97% | 21,800 |
| Guelph | 66.95% | 55,274 |
| Kitchener | 64.48% | 47,522 |
| Etobicoke | 64.28% | 34,150 |
| Tillsonburg | 64.11% | 10,447 |
| Mississauga | 63.93% | 40,381 |
| Brantford | 63.9% | 20,120 |
| Metro East | 63.81% | 36,669 |
| East Gwillimbury Temporary Site | 63.53% | 14,835 |
| Downsview | 62.49% | 53,255 |
| Newmarket | 62.14% | 49,327 |
| Thunder Bay | 60.99% | 9,488 |
| Orangeville | 60.9% | 46,346 |
| Woodstock | 60.75% | 10,365 |
| Brampton | 59.9% | 48,155 |
What the release holds
One data year, every centre in the province, each row carrying the tests it ran.
Centres in the release, covering the 2022 data year
65
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Road tests recorded across those centres
1,275,813
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Middle centre when the rows are lined up by pass rate, our own arithmetic over the release
73.31%
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27Between Bancroft at the top and Brampton at the bottom
28.23 points
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27The median and the spread are ours, computed from the per centre rows rather than quoted from the release. The release also carries its own average row, and the news coverage built on it reports a different provincial figure. We cannot reconcile those two, so this page publishes neither of them and shows you the rows instead.
Read this before you book a two hour drive
Travelling to a centre is a real trade off
A distant centre is not a free upgrade. You arrive on a road network you have never driven, on the day your driving is being marked. Unfamiliar lane markings, an intersection you have to read from scratch, a speed limit that changes where you do not expect it: all of that costs points, and none of it shows up in a pass rate table.
The gap between two centres also reflects the roads and the traffic at least as much as the people marking the test. A centre on quiet two lane roads and a centre feeding onto a six lane arterial are not measuring the same drive, even when they are measuring it the same way.
There is one more thing the table cannot see. The people who book a centre are not a random sample of Ontario drivers. Learners who train locally, learners who travel in, learners on their third attempt: each centre gets its own mix, and the mix moves the rate on its own. So treat a high number as a question worth asking rather than an answer, and treat your own preparation as the part you actually control.
The one distance question we cannot answer is how far any of this is from you. The operator's list gives addresses for permanent centres, but no verified coordinates. Nothing on this page is sorted by distance and no distance is shown anywhere on it.
Every figure this comparison applies
Four figures sit behind every comparison this tool draws. Two come straight from the release, and two are arithmetic we do over its rows and label as ours.
- Highest pass rate in the release88.13%
Bancroft, in the 2022 data year.
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27 - Lowest pass rate in the release59.9%
Brampton, in the 2022 data year.
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27 - Median of the release73.31%
The middle row when all 65 of them are lined up by pass rate. Our own arithmetic over the released rows, not a figure the release states.
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27 - Road tests counted across the release1,275,813
Every road test the release records against a centre, added up. Our own arithmetic over the released rows.
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27
What this comparison ignores
Assumptions and limits
- It shows no distance and sorts by no distance, because the location source carries no verified coordinate for any centre.
- It is one data year. A centre that was busy or short staffed that year is not a centre that will be either next year.
- A pass rate reflects the roads around a centre and the people who book there at least as much as it reflects the marking, so a gap between two of them is not a measure of how strict anybody is.
- It cannot tell you your own chance of passing anywhere. The figures describe everyone who tested at a centre in one year, not you.
Where to go next
The whole release, sortable
Every row in the dataset with its rank, its test count and its distance from the median we compute.
The Ontario knowledge test
The test that comes before any of this, what is published about it, and a free simulation of it.
Road test vehicle check
The walk around that decides whether a road test starts at all, wherever you booked it.
Sources
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.
DriveTest, alphabetical centre list
Verified 2026-09-15
The full pass rate table or what the reputations look like next to the measurements