Carlyon Bay is well connected to the internet and poorly connected to everywhere else. More than half of working residents drive. Around a third never leave the house to work at all. Fewer than one in a hundred catches a train. The connection that matters at this address arrives through a cable rather than a timetable.
There are stations at Par and St Austell within reach of the area. Fewer than 1% of working residents commute by train, and fewer than 1% go by bus, which are the shares of a place where the timetable lost the argument a long time ago. Eight bus stops serve the area.
The commute mix tells the story the transport list cannot. About 54% of working residents drive to work and about 36% work from home, which between them account for almost everybody. Walking takes about 5% and cycling about 1%. Around 8% of households have no car, while 48% keep two or more. A place where nearly half of all households run a second vehicle has already held its referendum on public transport.
Broadband is the redeeming feature. Superfast service reaches every premises in the area, gigabit service reaches about 41%, and no premises sit below the universal service minimum. The digital infrastructure here is in considerably better shape than the physical kind.
Mobile coverage runs to close to 100% of the area from at least one operator, and about 95% from every operator.
For a typical week, that means the car does everything: the shopping, the school run, the station you are not catching a train from. The single largest group of workers solved the commute by not having one.
Counting departures rather than routes, the 8 stops average about 26 scheduled weekday departures each, with about 2 an hour at peak, and all 8 carry some weekend service. That is a genuine service rather than a token one. It has still failed to convince anybody here to leave the car on the drive.
Noise is the compensation. None of the area's postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level at which official mapping starts treating traffic as significant, and rail noise, which is mapped separately, comes out at 0% as well. Quiet is the one piece of infrastructure this place has in surplus.
Electric vehicle charging is thin to the point of comedy. There is 1 public charge point in the area, offering 1 connection, and none of it is rapid. Charging here is something arranged overnight on your own driveway, not something slotted in while doing a shop.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about this address by a wide margin. A fast line to the house and a car on the drive are carrying the entire load, and everything else on the transport list is scenery.