Very well by train and broadband, badly by bus. There's a station in the middle of town with direct trains to London. Broadband is close to universal. More than half the workforce doesn't commute at all. The bus is the poor relation, and the car does most of the rest.
Gerrards Cross Rail Station runs direct trains to London, with Denham, Denham Golf Club, Seer Green, Beaconsfield and Rickmansworth stations within reach for anyone happy to drive a few minutes for a different timetable. Even so, the 2021 Census found only about 3% of working residents went to work by train, and under 1% by bus. There are 39 bus stops in the area. The 34 with timetable data average about 30 scheduled departures each on a weekday, which is fewer than two an hour at peak, though 94% have some service at weekends. The bus works for an occasional trip, but nobody would build a commute around it.
The commute mix explains the rest. About 56% of working residents worked from home on the 2021 Census, about 32% drove and about 3% walked. Only about 7% of households have no car, and about 59% have two or more. "Five minutes from the station" is in half the listings in town, and most of the people who bought on that line are now on a video call at home.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics are modelled averages for the area from 2019, so they describe the typical trip for someone living here, not a route from your door. The public transport times are the least reliable of the set, because services have been cut since. On those figures, the nearest town centre is about 9 minutes away by car, 13 by bike, 17 by public transport and 24 on foot. A GP surgery is about 11 minutes by car, 21 by public transport and 41 on foot, and a hospital is about 16 minutes by car or 34 by public transport. A food shop is about 7 minutes by car or a 10-minute walk, and a large employment centre is about 15 minutes by car or 16 by public transport. A 41-minute walk to the doctor's is why so many families here run two cars.
Gigabit broadband is available to about 96% of premises, superfast to about 99%, and no premises fall below the government's minimum broadband standard. All four mobile operators cover about 98% of the area with 4G or 5G, and at least one covers all of it. For a town where most people work from home, that's the connection that actually matters, and it's very good.
More than 99% of postcodes are near roads loud enough to reach 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate source: about 13% of postcodes are near track loud enough to reach 65 decibels. How much you hear depends on the house, its glazing and which way the bedrooms face, so stand in the garden before you offer.
There are five public charge points in the area, with seven connectors between them, and two of those are rapid. With only two rapid connectors in town, most electric car owners charge at home on the drive.
For a typical working week here, that means a home office, a car for errands and the school run, and a fast train to London on the days you go in.
Gerrards Cross is moderately well connected, with excellent broadband and a fast line to London, let down by thin buses and long walks to everyday services.