Poorly, unless the connection you care about is broadband. The nearest railway stations are somewhere else. Four bus stops serve the village. Most people drive, and a big minority have stopped commuting altogether by working from home. The village is wired better than it is served, which is a modern kind of isolation.
There is no station in Chacewater. The nearest are at Perranwell and Redruth, and the commuting figures reflect that: nobody in the village travels to work by train. Buses exist, with 4 stops in the area, and about 3% of working residents use them to get to work.
What the village actually does is drive. About 58% of working residents commute by car, around 27% work from home, roughly 4% walk and about 2% cycle. Car ownership follows: around 46% of households run two or more vehicles, while about 15% have none at all. That last group is the one to think hardest about, because a place built around two cars per drive is an expensive place to live without one.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest town centre at about 16 minutes by car and about 23 minutes by public transport. That is a narrower gap than most rural villages manage, and it is the single most encouraging number in this whole answer.
Broadband is genuinely good. Superfast reaches about 99% of premises, and no premises fall below the universal service obligation. Gigabit and ultrafast availability both sit at about 1%, so the very top tier has not arrived, but the everyday connection a household needs is there.
Mobile coverage is close to complete: about 100% of premises get a fourth or fifth generation signal from at least one operator, and around 95% get one from all operators.
In practice this is a two-car village with a good home office. The commute works if it is a drive or a laptop, and the people already here have largely arranged their lives on that basis.
On the same modelling, the nearest town centre is around 29 minutes by bicycle and about 79 minutes on foot. That walk figure is the finding rather than a curiosity: the town is not walkable from here, and anyone imagining a stroll into shops should look at the cycle time instead. These are modelled statistics for the area as a whole, not a route from any particular front door.
For everyday destinations, the same Department for Transport statistics put a doctor's surgery at around 7 minutes by car, 10 by public transport, 9 by bicycle and 12 on foot, which is the best-placed thing on the list. A hospital runs about 14 minutes by car and 23 by public transport, or roughly 67 minutes walking. A food store is about 10 minutes by car, 10 by public transport and around 38 minutes on foot. Employment centres sit about 12 minutes by car and 15 by public transport, or about 70 minutes walking. The public transport figures date from 2019 and rural services have been withdrawn in plenty of places since, so weight them more lightly than the car and walking times.
The bus service is better than four stops suggests. Across those stops there is an average of about 117 scheduled weekday departures each, with around 8 at peak hour, and all 4 stops carry some weekend service. Those are current departure counts rather than modelled estimates, and a village where the bus still runs on a Sunday is not one that has been abandoned by the timetable.
On road noise, about 18% of postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road traffic as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. No postcodes register rail noise at that threshold, which follows from there being no railway. How any individual house sounds depends on which way it faces and what sits between it and the road.
Connectivity is the weakest part of the case for Chacewater, and it is not a marginal weakness: no station, a commute that assumes a car, and a top-tier broadband upgrade that has not turned up. The compensation is that the bus still runs, the town centre is not far by road, and a working-from-home life here is perfectly viable.