Horndean connects by car and cable, not by train. Gigabit broadband reaches roughly nine in ten addresses. Around three in five residents drive to work. About three in ten work from home. Trains and buses carry the rest, which isn't many.
The village has no station of its own. About one in two hundred residents commutes by train, which is the share you'd expect from a place where the nearest stations are all a drive away. The nearest options are Rowlands Castle, Havant, Bedhampton, Cosham, Emsworth and Warblington. Each of them is a drive from the village rather than a walk, and the journey from a Horndean doorstep starts with a car before it starts with a train. Buses do better on geographic coverage than on modal share. Around a hundred bus stops fall inside the wider Horndean catchment, which is a respectable network on paper. About one in sixty residents uses them to commute, which tells you what most people think of the frequencies and the routes. The buses are there. They are not, for most of the village, the thing they use. Walking and cycling sit at low single digits each, with about one in thirty walking to work and roughly one in a hundred cycling. The destinations that matter aren't close enough for either to be the daily default.
Broadband is where Horndean stops looking like a village and starts looking like a small town. Gigabit-capable connections are available to about nine in ten properties. Superfast coverage hits the full hundred percent of addresses. Effectively no household sits below the universal service obligation threshold. Mobile coverage backs the picture up. Every address has at least one operator on 4G or 5G, and around ninety-nine percent have all four operators reachable. For anyone whose job runs on a video call, this is the village quietly doing one thing right.
Getting about day to day works on a few hub journeys. The nearest town centre takes about twelve minutes by car or roughly twenty-four by public transport. The nearest secondary school is around ten minutes by car or eighteen by public transport. The nearest primary is closer still, about eight minutes by car and eleven by public transport. The gap between car and public transport widens on the longer journeys, with the town centre taking double the time on the bus as it does in the car. The bus and the train aren't slow in absolute terms. They are slow in comparison to the car on the same road, which is the kind of problem that gets worse the further the trip.
Horndean is averagely connected by the overall rating, well above average for broadband, and near the bottom of the table for rail. If you drive or work from home, the village runs like clockwork. If you depend on a train, you depend on a car to get to the train first.