Devizes is well connected if you drive, and poorly connected if you don't. Half of commuters drive. Almost nobody gets a train. Three in ten don't commute at all. Fast broadband reaches nearly every home. The quickest way out of Devizes is through a router.
The town has no railway station, and train commuting rounds to zero, which on the 2021 Census is lower than the share who cycle. There are 116 bus stops in the area, yet only about 1% of working residents take the bus to work. Devizes has the bus stops, but hardly anyone uses them to get to work.
The 2021 Census shows how the town actually gets to work. About 49% drive and about 30% work from home. Another 12% walk. Cycling and public transport barely register. About 18% of households have no car, and about 40% have two or more. For households with two cars, the driveway matters more than the timetable.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics give modelled times for the area as a whole, not a route from any particular front door. They put the nearest town centre about 10 minutes away by car, 13 by bike, 15 by public transport and about 25 on foot. A GP is about 9 minutes by car, 14 by public transport and 21 on foot. A food store is about 7 minutes by car or 12 on foot. Employment is about 10 minutes by car and 32 by public transport, which shows why the car wins. The nearest hospital is the headline figure: about 55 minutes by car and about 106 by public transport. The public transport figures date from 2019 and services have been cut since, so the car and walking times are the more reliable ones.
The buses run more often than the commuting figures suggest. Stops average about 25 scheduled departures on a weekday, but only about one an hour at peak times, which is what matters if you have a start time. About 88% of the stops with timetable data have some weekend service. That's a working bus network, just not one you'd plan a career around.
Broadband is the town's saving grace. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 72% of premises and superfast about 98%, and no measured postcode falls below the legal minimum. That explains the 30% working from home better than any lifestyle story.
Mobile coverage is not an issue. Every postcode gets 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and about 98% get it from all of them.
Road noise is the price of a town with three main roads running through it. More than 99% of postcodes are near or above the 65-decibel level, which is where official noise mapping starts to treat road noise as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. That's a mapping measure of the area, not a prediction of how loud a particular bedroom will be, but it's worth listening outside at rush hour before you make an offer. Rail noise doesn't register, for the obvious reason.
Electric-car drivers have less to work with. The area has two public charge points with three connectors between them, and none of them are rapid. Charging here is something you plan for, not something you do while picking up the shopping. Most drivers will need a charger on their own driveway.
For a typical working household, the realistic model is one person at a desk upstairs and one person in the car. Anyone who depends on buses or trains to get to work will find Devizes hard going.
Devizes is middling on connectivity. Strong broadband and short drives make up for a town with no station and buses that aren't built for commuting.