Lancing is well connected in the ways that matter day to day, and quietly ordinary in the ways that make headlines. It has its own station on the coastal line, a couple of hundred bus stops scattered across the area, and broadband fast enough to turn the spare bedroom into a proper office. What it does not have is much of a rail-commute habit, with only a small share of residents catching a train to work. This is a place wired more for working from home and driving to the next town than for a daily dash to a city platform.
On rail, Lancing Rail Station sits directly on the coastway line, with neighbouring stops at Durrington-on-Sea, East Worthing, West Worthing, Worthing, Shoreham-by-Sea, and Southwick strung along the same route within easy reach. The line runs east and west along the coast, with onward connections toward Brighton and London for anyone who needs them. Even so, only around three in a hundred residents actually commute by train, which tells you more about how people here choose to live than about the service itself. Buses are present rather than plentiful. There are close to two hundred stops across the area, though only a small fraction of people lean on them to get to work.
Broadband is the strong card in the hand. Gigabit-capable connections reach more than nine in ten homes, and faster-than-basic coverage is effectively universal across the area. For a coastal spot with a lot of post-war housing, that is genuinely good going, and it is the single biggest reason the work-from-home crowd can settle here without a running battle with the router.
In practice that mix shapes the daily rhythm. About half of working residents drive, roughly a quarter work from home, and the train and bus shares trail well behind both. The nearest town centre is around a quarter of an hour away by car, so errands and appointments are close at hand without being right on the doorstep. This is a car-and-broadband place first and a public-transport place second, and it makes no effort to pretend otherwise.
The verdict is an above-average three and a half out of five. The station, the strong coverage, and the road access give Lancing a solid, unfussy sort of connectedness that fits how most people here genuinely move about. It will not turn you into an effortless daily London commuter, but it will get you to work, online, and out of town without much of a fight, which for most buyers is the entire point.