By car and broadband, well. By everything else, thinly. Half of working residents stay at home. Hardly anyone takes the train. There is one public charge point in the whole village. Chalfont St Peter commutes by fibre and keeps the car for everything else.
The village's railway station is Gerrards Cross, on the line to London Marylebone. Chalfont & Latimer and Seer Green are among the other stations within reach. At the 2021 census only about 2% of working residents took the train to work. There are 43 bus stops in the area, and under half a percent of workers commuted by bus. A station on the doorstep has never yet persuaded this village to stand on a platform.
The census was taken while much of the country was still working from home, and about 50% of working residents here did. Driving came next, at 38%. Walking managed 5%, and cycling barely registered, at under 1%. Only about 8% of households have no car, and about 58% have two or more. Those who do leave the house mostly leave it by the front drive.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics put the nearest town centre about 8 minutes away by car and about 12 by public transport. By bike it takes about 9 minutes and on foot about 13. Those times are averages for the area as a whole. The difference between driving and walking into town is only five minutes.
The same Department for Transport statistics give a GP about 8 minutes away by car, 14 by public transport and 16 on foot. A food shop is about 10 minutes' walk or 7 minutes' drive. Employment centres are about 11 minutes by car and 12 by public transport. A hospital is about 21 minutes by car and about 39 by public transport. These are modelled averages from 2019. The distances have not moved since, but the bus and train timings are the shakiest part of the set, because services have been cut in the years since.
The bus timetable gives a more current picture than the modelled times. Stops in the area with timetable data average about 34 departures a weekday, and about two buses in the peak hour. About 97% of those stops have some weekend service. A bus every half hour at the rush is a usable service, and the census says very few people use it.
Broadband is the strongest link the village has. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 93% of premises, superfast about 99%, and no premises fall below the government's minimum universal service level. Mobile coverage is near complete: at least one operator reaches 100% of the area with 4G or 5G, and all operators reach about 98%. Half the workforce runs its job down that line.
Road noise is the price of all that driving. Every postcode in the area falls near a road at or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats traffic noise as significant, and the loudest band reaches 75 decibels or more. Rail is a separate source, and about half of postcodes fall near railway noise at 65 decibels. Check the specific house on the government's noise maps. A house near the busy road and the railway line hears both.
There is one public electric charge point in the area, with one connector, and no rapid chargers. Charging here is something you do at home on your own drive. Anyone without a drive will be planning trips around a single plug.
Chalfont St Peter is middling for connections: excellent broadband and short drives to everyday places, against little practical use of the train and a single public charge point. It works best for households who work from home and drive for everything else.