Dursley is well connected by car and by cable, and badly connected by anything with a timetable. About half of commuters drive. A third work from home. Hardly anyone takes the train. Broadband reaches more of the town than the buses do.
Cam & Dursley station is on the main line just outside town, yet the 2021 census found fewer than 1% of Dursley's working residents getting to work by train. The town has 44 bus stops, and about 1% of commuters use a bus. The station has the town's name on it and almost none of the town's commuters.
Most people drive or don't commute at all. About 53% of Dursley's working residents drive to work, about 32% work from home and about 7% walk. Cycling barely registers at about 1%. About 46% of households have two or more cars, and about 15% have none. That 15% live in a town where everything past the food shop is built around the car.
Inside the town, getting about is easy. The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest town centre about 8 minutes away by car, 10 by bike, 12 by public transport and 13 on foot. In Dursley you can walk to most of what you need. The trouble starts once you need to go further.
Those same Department for Transport figures, averaged across the area, put a doctor's surgery about 8 minutes away by car, 14 by public transport and 16 on foot. A food shop is about 7 minutes' drive or 8 minutes' walk, and a sizeable employment centre about 14 minutes by car or 26 by public transport. The nearest hospital is about 37 minutes by car and about 75 by public transport. The distances don't change, but the public transport times were modelled in 2019, and bus services have been cut since, so they're the figures to trust least. A 75-minute bus trip to hospital is the 2019 version.
The current timetable is thin. Across the 34 Dursley stops with service records, the average stop sees about 13 departures on a weekday and fewer than one an hour at peak. About 94% of those stops have some weekend service. Look up the timetable for the stop nearest the house you're considering, because the town-wide average hides stops with only a couple of buses a day. Commuting by bus from here is possible on paper and rarely done in practice.
Broadband is where Dursley makes up ground. About 71% of premises can get gigabit speeds and 99% superfast, and no premises fall below the legal minimum. Mobile signal comes from at least one network everywhere and from every network across about 94% of the town. The internet reaches Dursley more reliably than the bus does.
Every postcode in Dursley is at or near the 65-decibel road-noise level, the point at which official noise mapping treats traffic as significant, and the loudest band recorded is 75 decibels. Rail is a separate source with the same reach, with every postcode near the 65-decibel mark for train noise and a loudest band of 70 decibels. Those are mapped levels for the area, and the noise inside any particular house will depend on where it is and how it's built.
There are 3 public charge points in the area with 4 connectors between them, and none of them are rapid. An electric car here gets charged on the driveway overnight, because a quick top-up while you shop isn't an option yet.
For a typical household, connectivity in Dursley means a car for anything beyond the town, a fibre line for the working week, and a short walk for bread. Overall it's poor to middling: the town works well on foot, the car fills most of the gaps beyond it, and public transport fills almost none.