Lanner is connected by car and by fibre, and by very little else. Six in ten residents drive to work. A quarter do not leave the house to work at all. The share commuting by train rounds to nothing. Broadband arrived here years before a decent bus service did, and on current form it has the lead for keeps.
Rail means Redruth Rail Station, which is the connection to the main line and is not in the village. The census share of Lanner residents commuting by train is 0.2%, which rounds to nothing and describes a village where the railway is a thing you drive to rather than a thing you use. Buses exist in the sense that there are eight stops, but only about 1% of working residents commute on one.
What the village actually does is drive. About 62% of working residents commute by car, 25% work from home, 4% walk and 1% cycles. Around 53% of households run two cars or more, and about 9% have none at all. The two-car household is the default here, and the 9% without a car are living a materially different version of Lanner to everyone else.
For the nearest town centre, the Department for Transport's modelled times put the drive at around 10 minutes and the same trip by public transport at about 17. That gap is small by rural Cornwall standards, which is the one genuinely good thing about the bus position here.
Broadband is the part of this answer that would please a remote worker. Superfast is available at every premise in the village, gigabit and ultrafast at about 81%, and nothing falls below the minimum legal speed standard. For a former mining village in a valley, that is a better connection to the outside world than the roads offer.
Mobile coverage is close to universal, with essentially the whole area covered by at least one operator and 95% by all of them. Nobody is standing in the garden holding a phone above their head.
Put together, the practical shape of a Lanner commute is a car journey to somewhere else, or no commute at all. The quarter working from home have the infrastructure to do it properly. Everyone else has a driveway and a reason to use it.
On the full set of modelled times to the nearest town centre, the Department for Transport puts it at roughly 10 minutes by car, about 17 by public transport, around 16 by bicycle and about 35 minutes on foot. These are modelled figures for the area rather than a route from any particular front door. The walk time is the honest finding: thirty-five minutes each way is a hike, not an option.
For everyday destinations the same modelled statistics give a doctor's surgery at about 10 minutes by car, 18 by public transport and 30 on foot, and a food store at around 7 minutes by car and about 10 on foot, which is the best number in this answer. A hospital runs to roughly 24 minutes by car and about 51 by public transport. Employment centres come in at about 28 minutes by car and around 25 by public transport. Distances to fixed places hold up over time, but the public transport figures date from 2019 and services have been withdrawn since, so read those as the best case rather than the timetable.
Current bus data is more useful than the modelled version. The eight stops average around 31 scheduled departures each on a weekday, roughly one bus per stop in the peak hour, and all eight have some weekend service. Counting departures rather than routes, that is a real service by village standards, though one bus an hour at the time most people need it sets the ceiling on what anyone can plan around.
One environmental note that comes with being strung along a main road: about 91% of the village's postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels on the official road noise mapping, which is the level at which road noise is treated as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 70 decibels. Rail noise does not register here at all. How that sounds inside any particular house depends entirely on which side of the valley it is on.
Connectivity here is a split decision. Digital connection is one of Lanner's real strengths and physical connection is middling at best, propped up by short driving distances rather than by anything you can board.