Cars tested in your area
Every MOT test records the postcode area of the test station. Across 111,335,798 tests in 2023–2025, these pages count the different cars behind them — so you can see how many Ferraris, Fiestas or Fords were tested where you live, even when there are only a handful.
Most cars tested
| Postcode area | Cars | Tests |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham (B) | 1,505,286 | 3,318,297 |
| Sheffield (S) | 1,050,434 | 2,475,160 |
| Peterborough (PE) | 879,943 | 2,051,115 |
| Nottingham (NG) | 875,586 | 2,113,239 |
| Leicester (LE) | 833,455 | 1,932,720 |
| Bristol (BS) | 790,543 | 2,020,936 |
| Glasgow (G) | 770,087 | 1,825,203 |
| NEWCASTLE upon Tyne (NE) | 757,894 | 1,877,837 |
| Manchester (M) | 757,842 | 1,634,654 |
| Cardiff (CF) | 727,992 | 1,880,061 |
| Reading (RG) | 717,197 | 1,660,716 |
| Coventry (CV) | 710,063 | 1,603,416 |
“Tests per car” is above 1 because a car tested in all three years — or retested after a failure — appears once per test but only once in the car count.
All 118 postcode areas
Biggest first. Each page lists the makes and models tested there and a box to look up any car.
- Birmingham (B) 1,505,286 cars
- Sheffield (S) 1,050,434 cars
- Peterborough (PE) 879,943 cars
- Nottingham (NG) 875,586 cars
- Leicester (LE) 833,455 cars
- Bristol (BS) 790,543 cars
- Glasgow (G) 770,087 cars
- NEWCASTLE upon Tyne (NE) 757,894 cars
- Manchester (M) 757,842 cars
- Cardiff (CF) 727,992 cars
- Reading (RG) 717,197 cars
- Coventry (CV) 710,063 cars
- Derby (DE) 677,693 cars
- Northampton (NN) 643,763 cars
- Guildford (GU) 636,614 cars
- Doncaster (DN) 633,688 cars
- Portsmouth (PO) 625,787 cars
- Ashford (TN) 615,730 cars
- Chelmsford (CM) 585,507 cars
- Edinburgh (EH) 581,362 cars
- Norwich (NR) 580,697 cars
- Southampton (SO) 562,004 cars
- Leeds (LS) 561,229 cars
- Gloucester (GL) 552,780 cars
- Swansea (SA) 545,278 cars
- Brighton (BN) 536,583 cars
- Ipswich (IP) 531,255 cars
- Oxford (OX) 527,397 cars
- Stoke On Trent (ST) 523,235 cars
- Milton Keynes (MK) 522,429 cars
- Liverpool (L) 521,887 cars
- Warrington (WA) 516,491 cars
- Maidstone (ME) 507,103 cars
- Chester (CH) 506,934 cars
- Exeter (EX) 491,944 cars
- Stockport (SK) 490,786 cars
- Crawley (RH) 485,634 cars
- High Wycombe (HP) 475,165 cars
- Wakefield (WF) 463,021 cars
- Poole (BH) 453,260 cars
- Bradford (BD) 452,997 cars
- Preston (PR) 444,754 cars
- Plymouth (PL) 443,382 cars
- York (YO) 435,379 cars
- Blackburn (BB) 434,934 cars
- Middlesbrough (TS) 431,075 cars
- Romford (RM) 428,867 cars
- Wrexham (LL) 418,361 cars
- Basildon (SS) 416,408 cars
- Newport (NP) 413,512 cars
- Swindon (SN) 413,247 cars
- Bolton (BL) 405,126 cars
- KINGSTON upon Thames (KT) 402,554 cars
- Yeovil (BA) 399,127 cars
- London (SE) 396,246 cars
- London (E) 395,518 cars
- Hounslow (TW) 377,458 cars
- Dartford (DA) 376,885 cars
- Slough (SL) 370,121 cars
- Walsall (WS) 370,112 cars
- Colchester (CO) 361,626 cars
- Luton (LU) 361,415 cars
- Oldham (OL) 359,087 cars
- London (NW) 355,462 cars
- Croydon (CR) 353,094 cars
- Wolverhampton (WV) 353,044 cars
- Stevenage (SG) 350,123 cars
- Canterbury (CT) 342,140 cars
- London (N) 341,805 cars
- Stourbridge (DY) 340,655 cars
- Aberdeen (AB) 339,571 cars
- Hayes (UB) 329,491 cars
- Cambridge (CB) 325,402 cars
- Enfield (EN) 320,447 cars
- Hull (HU) 315,163 cars
- Wembley (HA) 312,835 cars
- Shrewsbury (SY) 311,367 cars
- Crewe (CW) 301,412 cars
- Taunton (TA) 295,464 cars
- Darlington (DL) 281,970 cars
- Worcester (WR) 279,265 cars
- Lincoln (LN) 269,084 cars
- Carlisle (CA) 264,072 cars
- Hamilton (ML) 263,223 cars
- Kirkcaldy (KY) 262,192 cars
- Durham (DH) 260,826 cars
- Truro (TR) 260,068 cars
- Ayr (KA) 251,464 cars
- London (SW) 241,939 cars
- Kendal (LA) 240,824 cars
- Wigan (WN) 239,320 cars
- Ilford (IG) 237,026 cars
- Paisley (PA) 232,373 cars
- St Albans (AL) 227,170 cars
- Salisbury (SP) 226,068 cars
- Newton Abbot (TQ) 223,284 cars
- Stirling (FK) 216,649 cars
- Watford (WD) 213,483 cars
- Huddersfield (HD) 206,300 cars
- Blackpool (FY) 197,475 cars
- Inverness (IV) 195,727 cars
- Dundee (DD) 195,304 cars
- Bromley (BR) 187,569 cars
- Telford (TF) 184,231 cars
- Hereford (HR) 177,514 cars
- Dorchester (DT) 175,499 cars
- Sunderland (SR) 174,192 cars
- Perth (PH) 144,646 cars
- London (W) 140,924 cars
- Harrogate (HG) 136,956 cars
- Halifax (HX) 132,024 cars
- Sutton (SM) 116,676 cars
- Dumfries (DG) 108,683 cars
- Berwick Upon Tweed (TD) 89,657 cars
- Brecon (LD) 41,414 cars
- Kirkwall (KW) 37,658 cars
- Stornoway (HS) 19,709 cars
- Lerwick (ZE) 16,228 cars
What these numbers are, and what they are not
A car here is a distinct vehicle: the DVSA anonymised data carries a stable vehicle identifier, so a car tested in 2023, 2024 and 2025 counts once. A test is one MOT record, so the same car can appear in both a pass and a retest.
The postcode is the test location, not the keeper's address. A specialist or a dealer's MOT station pulls cars from well outside its own area — which is exactly why the Ferraris cluster around a few postcodes.
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data, 2023–2025. Areas with fewer than five active test stations are merged by DVSA into a suppressed code and are not published here. Pass rates are shown only where a model has at least 30 tests in the area; the count is always shown.