Not very, unless the connection you mean is the one to your router. Six in ten drive to work. Nearly a quarter never leave the house to do it. The train share rounds down to nothing at all. The broadband is comfortably the best-connected thing about this village, and it does not face stiff competition for the title.
Rail is somebody else's arrangement. Barnstaple Rail Station is the station serving the area, and fewer than one commuter in a hundred here uses a train to get to work. The railway reaching this part of the Taw in the nineteenth century coincided with the village population going down rather than up, which is one way to receive a piece of national infrastructure. Buses do more of the work: 23 stops sit within the area and about 3% of working residents commute by bus.
The commute mix tells the real story. About 61% drive to work and about 24% work from home, which between them account for the overwhelming majority of the village's working day. About 5% walk and about 3% cycle. Roughly 10% of households have no car at all, and about 46% run two or more, a split that says more about the timetable than any transport statistic could.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics, modelled for the area rather than measured from any particular front door, put the nearest town centre about 16 minutes away by car against about 26 by public transport. Those public transport numbers were built in 2019 and rural services have been trimmed since, so treat them as the optimistic version.
For most people here the commute is a car journey with a laptop day in the middle of the week, and the second car is a working part of the household rather than an indulgence.
Filling out the same set of modelled times, that town centre is about 29 minutes by bicycle and about 77 minutes on foot. Seventy-seven minutes is not a commute, it is a finding: walking to town is not a realistic option from most of this village, and the bicycle is competitive with the bus rather than with the car.
The same statistics cover the everyday errands. A doctor's surgery is about 10 minutes by car, about 16 by public transport and about 30 on foot. The nearest hospital is about 22 minutes by car and about 49 by public transport. Food shopping is about 8 minutes by car or about 18 minutes walking, which is the one journey a reasonably mobile person could genuinely do without a vehicle. Employment centres come out at about 18 minutes by public transport and about 55 by car in the modelled figures. Distances to fixed destinations hold up well over time. The public transport side of all of it dates from 2019 and deserves more scepticism than the car and walking times.
Bus stops are not the same as buses, so the current service figures matter more. The 22 stops with published service data average about 75 scheduled departures on a weekday, with about 5 in the peak hour, and every one of those stops has some weekend service. For a village this size that is a functioning bus service rather than a decorative one, even if it loses to the car on every measure that matters to a commuter.
Broadband is where the area quietly excels. Superfast is available to every premises, gigabit-capable service reaches about 81%, and nothing falls below the universal service obligation. Mobile coverage reaches effectively the whole area from at least one operator and about 96% from all of them.
On noise, about 31% of the area's postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level at which official mapping treats traffic as a significant source, with 70 decibels the loudest band recorded. Rail noise does not register anywhere in the area.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about Fremington: middling at best, propped up by good digital infrastructure and a bus service that works, and undone by the plain fact that almost everything is a drive.