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Easiest DriveTest centre in Ontario: Bancroft

Bancroft had the highest recorded road test pass rate in Ontario in the 2022 data year: 88.13% across 4,372 road tests. Owen Sound followed at 88.06% across 4,406 road tests, and Kapuskasing at 86.84% across 828 road tests. A pass rate is not a difficulty score; it reflects who books there as much as the centre. From CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data), checked 2026-08-27.

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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Typing here filters the list beside it by centre name or by municipality from the verified operator list.

65 of 65 centres match what you have typed.

Pick a centre above and every other centre gets measured against it. Until then the table is simply the release in order, highest recorded pass rate first.

Ontario DriveTest centres, highest recorded road test pass rate first. Data year 2022.
RankCentrePass rateAgainst yoursRoad tests
1Bancroft88.13%Pick a centre4,372
2Owen Sound88.06%Pick a centre4,406
3Kapuskasing86.84%Pick a centre828
4North Bay83.78%Pick a centre4,826
5Espanola83.34%Pick a centre3,043
6Walkerton82.81%Pick a centre7,796
7Timmins82.64%Pick a centre4,372
8Kenora81.68%Pick a centre1,201
9Winchester81.05%Pick a centre1,926
10Huntsville80.91%Pick a centre4,406
11London79.03%Pick a centre37,415
12Chatham78.89%Pick a centre23,596
12Belleville78.89%Pick a centre13,847
14Stratford78.25%Pick a centre9,574
15Sarnia77.28%Pick a centre7,346
16Ottawa Temporary Site temporary location77.04%Pick a centre12,194
17Orillia76.96%Pick a centre12,183
18Brockville76.93%Pick a centre3,624
19Cornwall76.88%Pick a centre5,385
20Fort Frances76.54%Pick a centre1,138
21Hawkesbury75.91%Pick a centre5,426
22Niagara Region Temporary Site temporary location75.87%Pick a centre16,429
23Kingston75.71%Pick a centre13,393
24Burlington Temporary Site temporary location75.56%Pick a centre13,289
25Ottawa Canotek75.21%Pick a centre14,436
26Smiths Falls75.09%Pick a centre12,427
27Renfrew74.94%Pick a centre4,067
28Oakville74.63%Pick a centre43,931
29Ottawa Walkley73.82%Pick a centre37,585
30Lindsay73.81%Pick a centre32,731
31Simcoe73.48%Pick a centre12,902
32Kirkland Lake73.32%Pick a centre491
33Peterborough73.31%Pick a centre30,820
34Sudbury73.05%Pick a centre8,998
35New Liskeard73.02%Pick a centre1,071
36Sault Ste. Marie72.34%Pick a centre4,990
37Oshawa Temporary Site temporary location72.3%Pick a centre14,981
38Windsor72.27%Pick a centre23,155
39Dryden71.67%Pick a centre1,320
40Burlington71.19%Pick a centre31,011
41Clinton70.7%Pick a centre12,401
42Barrie70.59%Pick a centre32,932
43Sarnia Temporary Site temporary location69.16%Pick a centre2,234
44Mississauga Temporary Site temporary location68.5%Pick a centre35,406
45Oshawa68.34%Pick a centre70,265
46Port Union68.21%Pick a centre54,329
47Guelph Temporary Site temporary location67.68%Pick a centre20,148
48St. Catharines67.48%Pick a centre28,717
49Hamilton67.41%Pick a centre30,425
50Pembroke67.18%Pick a centre3,891
51Mount Joy Temporary Site temporary location66.97%Pick a centre21,800
52Guelph66.95%Pick a centre55,274
53Kitchener64.48%Pick a centre47,522
54Etobicoke64.28%Pick a centre34,150
55Tillsonburg64.11%Pick a centre10,447
56Mississauga63.93%Pick a centre40,381
57Brantford63.9%Pick a centre20,120
58Metro East63.81%Pick a centre36,669
59East Gwillimbury Temporary Site temporary location63.53%Pick a centre14,835
60Downsview62.49%Pick a centre53,255
61Newmarket62.14%Pick a centre49,327
62Thunder Bay60.99%Pick a centre9,488
63Orangeville60.9%Pick a centre46,346
64Woodstock60.75%Pick a centre10,365
65Brampton59.9%Pick a centre48,155

Every pass rate and test count here comes from CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data), verified 2026-08-27. The comparison column is a subtraction between two of those figures and nothing more.

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 2026-08-27

Road tests recorded across those centres

1,275,813

CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)verified 2026-08-27

Middle 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 2026-08-27

Between 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 2026-08-27

The 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

Data

The whole release, sortable

Every row in the dataset with its rank, its test count and its distance from the median we compute.

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The Ontario knowledge test

The test that comes before any of this, what is published about it, and a free simulation of it.

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Road test vehicle check

The walk around that decides whether a road test starts at all, wherever you booked it.

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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