By car and broadband, well. By train, barely. The station is there, and hardly anyone commutes on it. More than a third of workers never commute at all. Frimley is a place that gets connected through the router and the car keys, and the railway is mostly there to look at.
Frimley Rail Station sits on the line between Ascot and Aldershot, and in the 2021 census only about 1% of Frimley's workers took the train to work. Farnborough (Main), Farnborough North, Camberley and Blackwater stations are all in the wider area, so a longer drive can get you to a better-served platform. Buses fare about as badly as a commute: 61 stops across the area, and about 1% of workers using them to get to work.
The real commute runs by car or doesn't happen. About 45% of workers drove to work and about 36% worked from home. Around 10% walked, which is respectable for a suburb, and cycling barely registers at about 1%. Households match: about 56% have two or more cars, and only about 10% have none. Frimley doesn't do car-free, and nothing in these figures suggests it plans to start.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics, modelled for the area rather than from any particular front door, put the nearest town centre about 14 minutes away by car and about 26 minutes by public transport. By bike it is about 21 minutes, and on foot about 44. That last figure is the one to notice: the walk into town takes most of an hour, which is why the car stays in the drive only when it is raining too hard to get to it.
Broadband is where Frimley wins. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 91% of premises, superfast about 99%, and no premises fall below the universal service minimum. That explains the home-working figures better than any lifestyle survey would.
Mobile coverage is complete: about 100% of the area gets 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and the same share gets it from all of them. Your network choice won't matter here.
In practice, day-to-day journeys are short if you drive and slow if you don't. The typical commute is a car journey or a walk to the spare room, and the town is laid out to make both easy.
Everyday destinations are close by car. The same Department for Transport statistics, dating from 2019, put a doctor's surgery about 8 minutes away by car, 14 by public transport and 17 on foot. A hospital is about 11 minutes by car and 21 by public transport. A food shop is about a 9-minute walk or a 7-minute drive, which makes the milk run the one trip that doesn't need the car. Employment centres sit about 10 minutes away by car and 11 by public transport. The public transport figures are the ones to trust least, because services have been cut since those times were modelled.
The buses are better than the commute figures suggest. The average stop sees about 102 scheduled departures on a weekday and about 7 in the peak hour, and about 98% of stops have some weekend service. That is a bus service people could use. Most of them choose not to.
Road noise is part of the package. About 99% of Frimley's postcodes sit near or above the 65-decibel level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate and smaller issue: about 7% of postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels from trains, with the loudest band at 70. None of that says how loud a particular bedroom will be, so listen for yourself at the viewing.
Electric car owners will be charging at home. The area has 3 public charge points with 5 connectors between them, and none are rapid. Charging is something to plan for in Frimley, not something to fit in while you shop.
Frimley's connections are middling: excellent down a fibre cable and along the road, and poor for anyone who wanted the train to do the work.