Eynsham's connections are middling. There is a bus service you can use, broadband that mostly keeps up, and almost nobody takes the train. The car does most of the work. A third of working residents skip the commute altogether. Once you add up the trips that don't happen, the trips that do mostly happen by car.
Rail means a trip out to Hanborough or Combe, and under 1% of working residents commuted by train at the 2021 Census. The bus did better, with about 6%, from 32 stops across the village. Eynsham had a working wharf by 1302 and a canal trade by 1790, so for most of its history the village has been better connected by water than it has ever been by rail.
The 2021 Census shows how the village actually travels to work. About 44% drove and 36% worked from home, leaving walking at 6% and cycling at 3%. About 38% of households run two or more cars, while about 16% have none. The village divides into multi-car households doing the driving and car-free ones that rely on the bus or stay in the village.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics, modelled for the area in 2019, put the nearest town centre about 18 minutes away by car, 27 by public transport, 34 by bike and 93 on foot. That walk is an afternoon, not a commute. A GP is about 8 minutes by car, 12 by public transport or 14 on foot. A food shop is about 10 minutes' walk or 7 minutes' drive. A hospital takes about 27 minutes by car and 45 by public transport, and the nearest large employment centre about 14 minutes by car or 21 by public transport. The car and walking times will have held up since 2019, because the destinations have not moved. The public transport times are the weakest of the set, because they are the ones that change whenever services are cut.
The bus figures are current. Each stop averages about 86 scheduled departures on a weekday, around four an hour at peak, and 93% of stops have some weekend service. Eynsham has a working bus timetable, unlike the many villages whose stops see two buses a day. It is departures being counted here, not routes, so check the timetable from the nearest stop to wherever the job actually is.
Broadband holds up better than the roads. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 75% of premises, ultrafast about 81% and superfast 99%. Mobile coverage is close to complete, with every postcode reaching at least one network and about 99% reaching all of them. The people working from home are reasonably well served.
Road noise is where the connections cost something. Every postcode in Eynsham sits near road noise mapped at or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise does not register at all. How loud any particular house is depends on its distance from the road, which way it faces and how well it is glazed, and the mapping can't tell you that.
The village has one public charge point with two connectors and no rapid unit. Electric car owners will be charging at home, and anyone without a driveway will be charging by appointment.
For a typical commute, that means a car for most jobs, the bus for some, and the train only for people willing to get to Hanborough first. Eynsham is middling for getting about: the bus is better than the train share suggests and the broadband is good, but the car still decides how most of the village spends its week.