Not well, unless the connection you mean is the internet one. Nobody here commutes by train, because there is no railway left to commute on. Two thirds of working residents drive. Almost every property can get gigabit broadband. Delabole is wired to the rest of the world and over an hour from a hospital, which is a very modern kind of remote.
Rail is a closed subject. The 2021 Census records nobody at all travelling to work by train, which follows from there being no station to walk to. The North Cornwall Railway hauled freight out of Delabole from 1893 until 1964 and carried its last passengers in 1966. The trains are not coming back. Buses fill the gap on paper, with nine stops in the area, though under 1% of working residents use one to get to work.
What the village actually does is drive. About 65% of working residents commute by car, and roughly 16% work from home, which between them account for most of the working population. About 9% walk, and cycling to work sits under 1%. Car ownership follows the same logic: around 43% of households run two or more vehicles, and about 11% have none at all. In a place built around a quarry rather than a station, the second car is infrastructure rather than luxury.
For everyday distance, the Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest town centre at about 28 minutes by car and around 39 minutes by public transport. That gap is smaller than most rural comparisons manage, which says more about the drive being slow than the bus being quick.
Broadband is the outlier and the genuine strength. Gigabit-capable service reaches about 99% of premises, and superfast covers essentially all of them. A village where the quarry is the oldest continuous industry in the county has better connectivity than plenty of commuter suburbs, which is either an argument for rural investment or a very good joke about priorities.
Mobile is nearly as good. Around 100% of the area gets fourth or fifth generation coverage from at least one operator, and about 95% gets it from all of them, so the only real question is whether your particular network is one of the ones that works.
The practical result is that Delabole works beautifully for people whose job arrives down a wire and badly for people whose job is somewhere else. Remote work and a car cover it. A daily rail commute does not exist as an option.
Those journey times are modelled national statistics for the area rather than a route from anybody's front door. On the same basis, the nearest town centre sits at about 28 minutes by car, 39 by public transport, roughly 62 minutes by bicycle and about two hours on foot. Two hours is not a walk anybody makes, and stating it plainly is more useful than dressing it up as walkable.
The rest of the everyday list follows the same shape. A doctor's surgery is about 15 minutes by car, around 25 by public transport and roughly 74 minutes on foot. A hospital is about 73 minutes by car and close to 109 by public transport. A food store is genuinely close at about 7 minutes by car and around 11 minutes walking. Employment centres sit at about 82 minutes by car and around 67 by public transport. Those public transport figures date from 2019 modelling and rural services have thinned since, so treat them with more caution than the car and walking times, which change only when the roads do.
Current bus data is more encouraging than the commute figures suggest. The eight stops with service information average around 12 scheduled weekday departures each, roughly one or two of them in the peak hour, and all of them have some weekend service. That is a real timetable rather than a token one. Almost nobody is using it to get to work.
Road noise is a non-issue. None of the area's postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road traffic as significant, and no postcodes register against that threshold for railway noise either.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about living here, and it is weak in a specific way: superb digitally, adequate by road, and effectively nonexistent by rail. The village solved the twenty-first century problem and left the twentieth century one exactly where it was.