Poorly, unless you drive. Two mainline stations sit in the neighbouring towns and almost nobody here uses them. Two-thirds of working residents get in a car. Half the households run more than one. The connectivity on offer is a road network and a broadband line, and the village has arranged its whole daily life around that fact.
For rail, Camborne Rail Station and Redruth Rail Station are the two options, both in the towns either side rather than in the village itself. The share of working residents commuting by train rounds to zero. Buses exist in reasonable physical quantity, with 45 stops across the area, and are used by about 1% of commuters. Infrastructure is not the same as service, and neither is the same as habit.
The commute mix tells the real story. About 66% of working residents drive, and about 22% work from home, which between them account for almost everyone. Walking takes about 4% and cycling about 1%. Around 13% of households have no car at all, while about 49% run two or more. In a village where the shops, the school and the doctor are all close, the second car is not about errands. It is about the job being somewhere else.
The nearest town centre is about 11 minutes away by car and about 23 minutes by public transport, so the bus roughly doubles the journey for anyone without a licence or a lift. That gap is the whole argument for car ownership here, made in two numbers.
Broadband lands better than the roads do. Superfast service reaches about 99% of premises, and no premises sit below the universal service obligation, so slow connections are effectively a solved problem. Gigabit availability is a different matter at about 4%, which is where the modern part of the offer stops. Anyone who needs full fibre for work should check the specific address rather than the village.
Mobile coverage is close to universal, with about 100% of the area served by at least one operator and about 95% by all four. Whichever network someone already pays for is likely to work here.
In practice, this is a two-car village that pretends to be a one-car village. Everyday journeys are short and easy by car, work journeys are elsewhere, and the person who gives up driving finds their range collapses to whatever the timetable allows.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times for the area put the town centre at about 11 minutes by car, 23 by public transport, 18 by bicycle and 40 on foot. These are modelled figures for the area as a whole rather than a route from any particular door. The 40-minute walk is the finding worth holding onto: nothing about this village is within a casual stroll of a high street, and the bicycle beats the bus.
The same modelling puts a doctor's surgery at about 8 minutes by car, 14 on foot and 11 by public transport, which is genuinely local. A food shop is about 8 minutes on foot or 7 by car. Employment centres run to about 24 minutes by either car or public transport. A hospital is the outlier at about 23 minutes by car and about 52 by public transport. Those public transport times date from 2019 and services have been withdrawn across Cornwall since, so treat them as optimistic in a way the car and walk times are not.
On current bus data rather than modelling, the stops average about 34 scheduled departures on a weekday and roughly 2 buses in the peak hour, with every stop that reports data carrying some weekend service. Two an hour at the busiest time of day is a service you plan your life around rather than one you turn up for.
One environmental note that belongs with the roads: every postcode in Illogan sits near or above the 65-decibel threshold that official noise mapping treats as significant road noise, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. That is a village with a main road running close by, not a silent one, and the difference between one street and another will be considerable.
Connectivity is Illogan's weak spot, and comfortably its weakest feature. The broadband works, the roads work, and everything else on the list is either in the next town or on a timetable that assumes you have a car anyway.