Badly, unless you're driving. There's no station of its own. No bus calls at rush hour. Nearly half of working residents don't commute at all. For anyone working from home, the commute is the walk to the spare room.
The nearest railway stations are Headcorn, Staplehurst and Pluckley, and none of them is in the village. About 2% of working residents commute by train. The area has 12 bus stops, and about 1% of working residents commute by bus.
The census commute mix is simple. About 47% drive to work and about 43% work from home. Walking is about 3% and cycling about 1%. About 54% of households have two or more cars, and only about 7% have none. Here a second car does the job a bus pass would do in a town.
The bus service is thinner than the stop count suggests. The 10 stops with timetable data average about 12 scheduled departures each on a weekday, with no buses at all in the peak hour. Only 60% of those stops see any weekend service. These are current timetable figures. A stop with no morning-peak bus is no use to a commuter.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics are modelled for the area as a whole, not a route from any particular front door. They put the nearest town centre about 14 minutes away by car, 29 by bike, 37 by public transport and 78 on foot. A GP is about 13 minutes by car, 39 by public transport and 77 on foot. The nearest hospital is about 34 minutes by car and 86 by public transport. A food store is about 10 minutes by car and 50 on foot. The employment figures are about 29 minutes by public transport and 78 by car. That's a quirk of the model rather than a sign the bus beats the car, so it's not a figure to plan a commute around. The public transport times date from 2019, and services have been cut since in many places, so treat them as more generous than the car and walk times. The walk times are the real finding: nothing a household uses every week is within an easy walk.
Broadband is patchy. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 20% of premises, and superfast about 66%. About 5% fall below the universal service obligation, the legal minimum for a decent connection. For anyone planning to join the 43% working from home, check the line at the exact address before exchange.
Mobile coverage is fine. At least one operator reaches every postcode with 4G or 5G, and all operators together reach about 98%.
Road noise is more widespread than you'd expect for a village. About 82% of postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels on the official road-noise mapping, the level at which that mapping treats road noise as significant. The loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise doesn't register at all, because there's no railway line to make any. How loud any one house is depends on how close it is to the road, so listen for yourself at a viewing.
For electric cars, the area has one public charge point with one connector, and none of it is rapid. Charging is something you do at home overnight, not while you're out shopping.
In practice, a working week here is a drive to one of the three stations or the town centre, or no commute at all. Anyone who can't drive is relying on a thin daytime bus timetable.
Connectivity is Biddenden's weakest point. The car and the home office cover what the trains and buses don't.