Driving Lessons in Croydon

Lessons are £40 an hour across CR postcodes, and automatic costs exactly the same as manual. Ten hours is £389 and twenty is £764, which brings it to £38.20 an hour. The figures come from the booking system, so the price here is the price you book.

Not one that DVSA publishes figures for in the current 2025/26 release. Learners here test at Mitcham, which is the nearest at around three miles, or at West Wickham or Morden, both of which publish higher rates. Mitcham's figures are at the top of this page.

Of the three in reach, West Wickham publishes the highest at 51.6%, then Morden at 51.0%, then Mitcham at 47.0%. Mitcham is the closest for most of the borough, so the choice is a trade between distance and the published figure. Your instructor will know which routes suit your driving.

Yes, at the same price as manual. It is worth considering here because of the hills towards Purley and Coulsdon, which is where manual learners lose the most hours. Say automatic when you book.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, not a school. We match you with independent DVSA-licensed instructors working CR postcodes, and your money sits with us until the lesson has happened before it goes to them. Every instructor is DBS-checked before they take a learner, and a female instructor is something you can ask for when you book.

Croydon, Thornton Heath, South Croydon, Purley, Coulsdon, Addiscombe, Norbury, Selhurst, Shirley and New Addington among others. 6 of the borough's 8 postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough or with Surrey, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

Yes, and early. Street-running trams share and cross the carriageway through central Croydon, they cannot swerve, and they catch out drivers who have never met one. Any instructor teaching the borough will have you driving among them well before your test.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The quieter residential roads around Shirley and Sanderstead are a much gentler start than the town centre, and instructors will usually begin there.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. The commonest asks here are the tram-crossed town centre and hill starts on the climb towards Purley.

Yes. Pass Plus is the DVSA's six-module course for new licence holders, covering motorway, dual carriageway, rural and night driving, and some insurers reduce premiums for it. Croydon suits it: the M25 and the Surrey downland lanes are both a short drive south.

DVSA research puts it at 45 hours of professional lessons plus 22 hours of private practice, and learners who get that private practice are markedly more likely to pass first time. The trams and the hills tend to add a few hours early on. Your instructor will give you an honest count after assessing you.

It moves weekly, so check GOV.UK on the day you book. Two things stay true: tests can be booked up to 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official waiting list or cancellation list. Because the borough has no centre of its own, check Mitcham, West Wickham and Morden together rather than one at a time. If you already hold a date and want an earlier one, our free Driving Test Swap matches you with another learner who wants yours.