Well enough for a town at the end of a branch line. The railway terminates here and goes one way. Buses are everywhere, roughly 240 stops of them. Half the town drives to work and a quarter works from home. Connectivity here is less about how far you can get and more about how rarely you have to bother.
Exmouth Rail Station is the end of the line, with Lympstone Village, Lympstone Commando, Exton and Topsham strung out along the estuary towards Exeter, and Starcross, Dawlish Warren and Dawlish sitting across the water on the other bank. Despite all that track, 1% of working residents commute by train. There are 243 bus stops in the area and 3% commute by bus. A town can be well served and still not use the service, and that is what these two numbers are saying together.
The commute mix explains why. Just over half of working residents, 52%, drive to work. Another 24% work from home. Walking accounts for 12% and cycling for 3%. Around 19% of households run no car at all, while 37% run two or more, which is the split you get when a compact old town centre sits next to inland estates built around a driveway.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, which describe the area rather than any particular front door, put the nearest town centre 9 minutes away by car, 14 by bicycle, 16 by public transport and 27 on foot. That is a genuinely walkable town by national standards, and the bike beats the bus.
The same statistics put a doctors' surgery 8 minutes away by car, 11 by public transport and 14 on foot, and a food store 7 minutes away whether walking or driving, which is the single most useful number in this section. Employment centres run 12 minutes by car and 26 by public transport. A hospital is 31 minutes by car and 59 by public transport, and that hour is the figure worth remembering, particularly for anyone who will eventually be making that trip regularly rather than occasionally. The public transport times date from 2019 and services have been cut around the country since, so treat them with more suspicion than the car and walking figures.
Bus stops are only worth counting if buses stop at them. Across the 228 stops with published timetables, the average is 51 scheduled departures on a weekday, with about 3 an hour at peak. All but one of those stops, 227 of 228, have some weekend service. That is a real network rather than a plaque on a pole.
Broadband is the strongest thing on this page. Gigabit connections reach 96% of premises, superfast reaches 99%, and 0.1% of premises sit below the universal service minimum. For anyone in the 24% working from home, the infrastructure is already better than the rail service will ever be.
Mobile coverage from at least one operator rounds to 100% of premises, and coverage from every operator reaches 97%.
Noise mapping is less flattering. Rounded, every postcode in the area sits near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level at which official mapping treats road noise as significant, with the loudest band present reaching 75 decibels. Rail noise is mapped separately and comes out the same way on coverage, topping out at 70 decibels. Neither figure predicts what any particular bedroom sounds like at seven in the morning.
Electric charging is the gap. There are 3 public charge points in the area providing 8 connectors between them, and none of them is rapid. Charging here is something you plan around overnight, not something you knock off during a supermarket run.
Connectivity is a decent middling story with one excellent chapter. The broadband and the walkability carry it, the bus network is real, and the railway is a pleasant branch line rather than a commuter artery, which is why so few people treat it as one.