Connected by car and fibre, not much else. Three in ten work from home. More than half drive to work. Train and bus between them carry about one commuter in fifty. There is no station inside the village. The connectivity that matters in Aldwick happens in the broadband router, not on the platform.
On rail, there is no station within the village. The nearest three sit at Bognor Regis, Barnham, and Chichester, all a short drive away and none reachable on foot. Direct trains to London leave from each, but the trip starts with a car or a bus ride, which is part of why only about one resident in eighty commutes by train. On buses, the area has about fifty-five bus stops, which sounds generous until you check the timetable. The bus carries about one commuter in a hundred and twenty. The remainder either drive, walk, cycle, or work from home, which says more about the buses than it does about the residents. The village's median age is sixty-two; most of the journeys that happen here are local and occasional, not the kind that depend on a published timetable.
On broadband, Aldwick is unexpectedly well-served. Full-fibre and gigabit-capable connections reach about three-quarters of postcodes. Superfast broadband reaches all of them. No address falls below the official baseline for a usable household connection. The fastest line in the village is faster than the fastest train out of it, which has quietly reordered what well-connected means here. Mobile coverage is similarly strong: at least one operator's modern mobile signal reaches every postcode, and nearly every postcode is covered by all of them. The infrastructure on the cable side is doing the work that the infrastructure on the rail side never did.
On a typical journey, the village runs on cars. The town centre at Bognor Regis is about eleven minutes by car, around seventeen minutes by bike, around twenty-two minutes by public transport, and around thirty-seven minutes on foot. A primary school sits about eight minutes by car or fifteen on foot. A secondary school is about ten by car or thirty on foot. None of these figures are bad in isolation, but they all assume you either have your own vehicle or have the patience to wait for one that runs to somebody else's timetable. A working couple here will typically own two cars; nearly half of households do. About one home in ten has no car at all, and those tend to be the homes where nobody has a job to commute to.
Aldwick rates two and a half out of five on connectivity, which is what happens when the broadband box scores top marks and the train timetable scores at the bottom. Buy here for the wi-fi, not for the platform. The village is well set for somebody working from a desk and badly set for somebody running for the eight-fifteen.