Greenwich is very well connected, and the most common way its workers got to work at the last count was not travelling at all. Most households have no car. The average bus stop gets more than twenty buses an hour at peak. Gigabit broadband reaches most homes. Everything you need on a normal day is a short walk away, and that walk tends to come with traffic noise.
Rail comes through Greenwich, Maze Hill and Westcombe Park stations, with Deptford and Blackheath stations close by, and direct trains run to London Cannon Street. At the 2021 Census only about 5% of workers here took the train to work and about 6% the bus, even with 213 bus stops in and around the area.
The biggest group, about 61% of workers at that census, worked from home. About 8% drove, 4% walked and 2% cycled. About 57% of households had no car, and only 6% had more than one. Three stations, 213 bus stops, and the commonest journey to work in 2021 was the one to the kitchen table.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics put the nearest town centre about 7 minutes away by car, 8 by bike, 9 by public transport and 10 on foot. When the walk is barely slower than the car, a car is optional for most errands.
The same statistics have a GP about 5 minutes' walk away on average, or 6 by car and 5 by public transport. A food shop is about 6 minutes on foot or by car. The nearest hospital is about 14 minutes by car and 26 by public transport, and about 39 minutes on foot. A hub of jobs is about 7 minutes by car, 12 by public transport and 25 on foot. These are modelled averages for the area. The distances to fixed places hold steady, but the public transport times date from 2019, and buses and trains have changed since then, so those times are the least reliable.
The buses run often. The 165 stops with timetable data average about 437 scheduled departures each weekday and about 23 an hour at peak, and about 99% of them have some weekend service. Those counts are departures, not routes, and they are the current timetable, unlike the 2019 journey times.
Gigabit broadband is available to about 86% of premises and superfast to about 99%, and no postcode falls below the government's minimum standard for a broadband connection. Every mobile operator covers the area with 4G or 5G.
Traffic is the cost of all this. About 95% of postcodes are near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level official noise mapping treats as significant, and the loudest band recorded here reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate source, and about 4% of postcodes are near 65 decibels from trains. Visit any shortlisted home at rush hour with a window open. Most households here don't drive, but they still hear the traffic.
There are 97 public charge points in the area, with 155 connectors in total, and 10 of those are rapid chargers. Ten rapid units across the whole area means most electric car owners plan their charging in advance.
Greenwich is one of the better-connected places to live, with frequent buses, plenty of stations and fast broadband. Its main cost is road noise.