Feltham is well connected, though its residents mostly use the connections to drive. The trains go direct to London. Buses come past most stops every few minutes. Fibre reaches most homes. Most commuters still go by car, and the railway gets far less use than the timetable would suggest.
Feltham Rail Station has direct trains into London, with the Heathrow terminal stations, Hounslow and Kempton Park all within reach. At the 2021 census only about 4% of working residents went to work by train. Buses carried about 13%, from 164 stops across the area. Feltham once built tramcars that ran in other towns and never in Feltham itself, and the town still sends most of its transport somewhere other than where you'd expect.
The car does most of the commuting. About 41% of working residents drove to work in 2021 and about 25% worked from home. Walking accounted for about 6% and cycling about 3%. About 27% of households have no car, while about 29% have two or more. Two neighbours can share a street and make completely different journeys, one queuing at the bus stop and the other choosing which car to take.
The buses are the strongest part of the network. Each stop averages about 233 scheduled departures on a weekday and about 13 an hour at peak, and 98% of stops have some weekend service. These are current timetable counts, unlike the journey times below, and they describe a service you can turn up and use without checking first.
On the Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics, the nearest town centre is about 9 minutes away by car, 12 by bike, 16 by public transport and 20 on foot. Everyday trips are short too. A GP is about 8 minutes by car, 11 by public transport or 13 on foot, a food shop about 7 minutes on foot or by car, and the nearest cluster of jobs about 7 minutes by car or 12 by public transport. Hospital is the long journey, at about 19 minutes by car, 28 by bike and 40 by public transport, and about 74 minutes on foot, a walk nobody should plan to make. The figures are averages for the area, calculated in 2019. Distances to fixed places don't change, but bus and train services can be cut, so the public transport times are the ones most likely to be out of date. Anyone without a car who relies on hospital appointments should check the current route from their exact address.
Gigabit broadband reaches about 90% of premises, and superfast about 99%. No premises fall below the legal minimum broadband standard. Feltham's broadband is in better shape than its high street. Mobile coverage is complete: every postcode gets indoor 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and from every operator too.
Traffic is the price. More than 99% of postcodes are near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level at which official noise mapping treats it as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is mapped separately, and about 38% of postcodes are near or above 65 decibels from the railway, peaking at 70. The mapping covers whole areas and can't tell you how a particular bedroom will sound. A visit at rush hour will.
There are 25 public charging points in the area with 48 connectors between them, and 5 of the points are rapid chargers. With five rapid units, charging is still something to plan for in Feltham, as it can't yet be done in passing while shopping.
Connectivity is above average and one of Feltham's better points. The buses, fibre and mobile signal are excellent, while the trains are underused and the roads are busy and loud.