Well connected by car, and poorly by anything else. Most working residents didn't commute at all at the last census. The station is shared with the next village. Most bus stops get nothing at weekends. In Cobham the car is how you get anywhere, and the station is mostly for visitors.
Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon station serves both places, with Oxshott station on the same line a short way east. At the 2021 census only 4% of Cobham's working residents took the train to work. There are 78 bus stops across the area, and under 1% of workers used a bus to get to the job. Having a station between two villages and leaving it to the occasional commuter is Cobham all over.
The census commute mix shows how the place actually moves. About 58% of working residents worked mainly from home in 2021, 28% drove, 5% walked and about 1% cycled. Only about 9% of households have no car, and about 56% have two or more. The house with three cars on the gravel and nobody commuting in any of them is a very Cobham kind of household.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics give the everyday trips as area averages. The nearest town centre is about 10 minutes away by car, 17 by public transport, 14 by bike and 25 on foot. A GP is about 9 minutes by car, 15 by public transport or 19 on foot. A food shop is about 7 minutes by car or 10 on foot. Employment centres are about 13 minutes by car or 22 by public transport. A hospital is about 25 minutes by car and 58 by public transport. Those figures are modelled from 2019 services. Distances to fixed places don't change, but the bus times are the ones most likely to be out of date. An hour by public transport to a hospital is the number to remember if anyone in the house doesn't drive.
The buses are thinner than the stop count suggests. The 78 stops average 18 scheduled weekday departures each, around one an hour at peak, and only about 31% of stops get any weekend service. Ring the council's travel line or check the timetable for the stop nearest the house, because two-thirds of stops sit unused from Friday night until Monday morning.
Broadband is good. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 60% of premises, ultrafast about 63% and superfast about 97%, and essentially no premises fall below the legal minimum broadband speed. With well over half the workforce working from home, the fibre does more of the commuting than the trains.
Mobile coverage is complete: 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and from all of them, reaches 100% of the area.
Road noise is everywhere. About 100% of Cobham's postcodes are near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road traffic as significant, and the loudest mapped band reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise doesn't reach 65 decibels at any postcode. The roads that make Cobham easy to drive out of are the same ones the noise maps pick up. How it sounds inside any particular house depends on the house.
Public charging is close to absent. The area has 3 charge points with 4 connectors between them, and none of them are rapid chargers. With this many cars on private drives, charging is something people do at home overnight. It is not something you can do while you shop.
For a typical commute, the answer is a car, a home office, or a car to the station. The train is there for the few who use it, and the bus is mostly for weekdays.
Connectivity is middling here. The broadband and the roads are good, but anyone who doesn't drive will find Cobham a lot further from everything than it looks on a map.