Not well, unless the road counts. Half the working population drives. A third works from home. Almost nobody takes a train, because the nearest station belongs to another town. This is somewhere you arrive by car and leave by car, and every other arrangement is a workaround people have made peace with.
There is no station in the town. The nearest one on the network is at Totnes, and the census bears out what that means in practice: about 0.4% of residents commute by train, which is a rounding error dressed up as a transport option. Buses do better than nothing. There are 32 bus stops across the area, though only about 1% of people use one to get to work.
The commute mix tells the real story. About 51% drive, 35% work from home, 7% walk and 1% cycles. Working from home is not a perk here, it is infrastructure. Around 11% of households run without a car at all, while about 48% keep two or more, which is the arithmetic of a household where two adults need to be in two different places and there is no third option.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, which describe the area rather than any particular front door, put the nearest town centre at about 20 minutes by car, 38 minutes by public transport, 45 minutes by bicycle and 120 minutes on foot. Two hours on foot is not a commute, it is a pilgrimage, and it is the clearest single statement of where this town sits relative to everything else.
The same modelling covers everyday destinations. A doctor's surgery is about seven minutes by car, ten on foot and ten by public transport, which is genuinely good. A food store is about nine minutes' walk or seven by car. Employment centres are about 17 minutes by car against 23 by public transport. The nearest hospital is about 32 minutes by car and about 80 by public transport, and that last figure is the one to sit with. Those journey-time statistics date from 2019, and while distances to fixed destinations do not move, bus services have been withdrawn across rural England since then, so treat the public transport numbers with more suspicion than the car and walking ones.
Current bus data is more encouraging than the commuting share suggests. The stops that publish timetables average about 22 scheduled departures on a weekday, and every one of them has some weekend service. The catch is the peak, where the average works out at about 1.3 buses per stop in the busiest hour. A bus an hour is a service you plan a day around rather than one you walk out and catch.
Broadband splits the town in half. Gigabit connections reach about 45% of premises, superfast about 74%, and about 2% sit below the universal service minimum. Whether the fibre came down your lane is therefore a coin toss with real consequences for anyone whose job is the reason they moved here. Mobile signal is the opposite story: at least one operator reaches essentially every postcode, and all of them reach about 97%.
Road noise is the price of the good driving times. Every postcode in the area sits near or above the 65-decibel threshold at which official mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. That reflects the dual carriageway that runs past the town rather than the streets themselves, and how it lands in any given house depends on where the house is. Rail noise registers at none of the postcodes, for the obvious reason.
Electric vehicle charging is thin. Three public charging locations serve the area, carrying 38 connectors between them, three of which are rapid units. That is enough to top up while doing something else, and not enough to rely on if the home charger is not an option.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about this town by a clear margin: fine if you drive, workable if you work from home, and genuinely difficult if neither of those is true.