diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/tests/cli-integ-tests/drift/cdk-cdk-drift---verbose-shows-unchecked-resources.integtest.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/tests/cli-integ-tests/drift/cdk-cdk-drift---verbose-shows-unchecked-resources.integtest.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d8a5ef58e..000000000
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/tests/cli-integ-tests/drift/cdk-cdk-drift---verbose-shows-unchecked-resources.integtest.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-import { integTest, withDefaultFixture } from '../../../lib';
-
-integTest(
-  'cdk drift --verbose shows unchecked resources',
-  withDefaultFixture(async (fixture) => {
-    await fixture.cdkDeploy('define-vpc', { modEnv: { ENABLE_VPC_TESTING: 'DEFINE' } });
-
-    // Assert that there's no drift when we deploy it, but there should be
-    // unchecked resources, as there are some EC2 connection resources
-    // (e.g. SubnetRouteTableAssociation) that do not support drift detection
-    const drift = await fixture.cdk(['drift', '--verbose', fixture.fullStackName('define-vpc')], { modEnv: { ENABLE_VPC_TESTING: 'DEFINE' } });
-
-    expect(drift).toMatch(/Stack.*define-vpc/); // cant just .toContain because of formatting
-    expect(drift).toContain('No drift detected');
-    expect(drift).toContain('(3 unchecked)'); // 2 SubnetRouteTableAssociations, 1 VPCGatewayAttachment
-  }),
-);
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/toolkit-lib/test/actions/drift.test.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk/toolkit-lib/test/actions/drift.test.ts
index 9d13b04da..e9c0f07f0 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/toolkit-lib/test/actions/drift.test.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/toolkit-lib/test/actions/drift.test.ts
@@ -88,4 +88,57 @@ describe('drift', () => {
     expect(Object.keys(result).length).toBe(0);
     ioHost.expectMessage({ containing: 'No drift results available' });
   });
+
+  test('resources without a drift record are reported as unchecked in the summary', async () => {
+    // GIVEN - drift detection completes, but CloudFormation returns no drift
+    // record for the bucket (e.g. the resource type does not support drift
+    // detection)
+    mockCloudFormationClient.on(DetectStackDriftCommand).resolves({ StackDriftDetectionId: '12345' });
+    mockCloudFormationClient.on(DescribeStackDriftDetectionStatusCommand).resolves({ DetectionStatus: 'DETECTION_COMPLETE' });
+    mockCloudFormationClient.on(DescribeStackResourceDriftsCommand).resolvesOnce({
+      StackResourceDrifts: [],
+    });
+
+    // WHEN
+    const cx = await builderFixture(toolkit, 'stack-with-bucket');
+    const result = await toolkit.drift(cx, {
+      stacks: { strategy: StackSelectionStrategy.ALL_STACKS },
+    });
+
+    // THEN
+    expect(result.Stack1.numResourcesWithDrift).toBe(0);
+    expect(result.Stack1.numResourcesUnchecked).toBe(1);
+    // the final tally includes the unchecked count
+    ioHost.expectMessage({ containing: 'Number of resources with drift: 0 (1 unchecked)' });
+  });
+
+  test('summary has no unchecked suffix when all resources were checked', async () => {
+    // GIVEN - every resource has a drift record
+    mockCloudFormationClient.on(DetectStackDriftCommand).resolves({ StackDriftDetectionId: '12345' });
+    mockCloudFormationClient.on(DescribeStackDriftDetectionStatusCommand).resolves({ DetectionStatus: 'DETECTION_COMPLETE' });
+    mockCloudFormationClient.on(DescribeStackResourceDriftsCommand).resolvesOnce({
+      StackResourceDrifts: [
+        {
+          StackId: 'some:stack:arn',
+          StackResourceDriftStatus: 'IN_SYNC',
+          LogicalResourceId: 'MyBucketF68F3FF0',
+          PhysicalResourceId: 'physical-id-1',
+          ResourceType: 'AWS::S3::Bucket',
+          Timestamp: new Date(Date.now()),
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    // WHEN
+    const cx = await builderFixture(toolkit, 'stack-with-bucket');
+    const result = await toolkit.drift(cx, {
+      stacks: { strategy: StackSelectionStrategy.ALL_STACKS },
+    });
+
+    // THEN
+    expect(result.Stack1.numResourcesWithDrift).toBe(0);
+    expect(result.Stack1.numResourcesUnchecked).toBe(0);
+    ioHost.expectMessage({ containing: 'Number of resources with drift: 0' });
+    expect(() => ioHost.expectMessage({ containing: 'unchecked' })).toThrow();
+  });
 });