Liphook is well connected by car and by fibre, and poorly by everything else. About half the households run two or more cars. Four in ten people work from home. The bus timetable has almost nothing at weekends. Nearly everywhere is within reach, as long as you can drive there.
Liphook Rail Station is in the village, and Haslemere Rail Station is the other one nearby. The 2021 Census found about 2% of working residents commuting by train, and under 1% by bus, even though the area has 33 bus stops. So there's a railway station and a spread of bus stops, and very few people use either to get to work.
For how Liphook actually gets to work, the 2021 Census figures are clear. About 47% of working residents drove and about 41% worked from home. About 5% walked, and cycling barely registered. Car ownership matches: about 51% of households have two or more cars, and only about 10% have none. For most households, getting to work means either the car or a laptop at home.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics are modelled for the area as a whole rather than timed from any particular door, and the public transport figures date from 2019. On those figures, the nearest town centre is about 14 minutes by car. By public transport it's about 34 minutes, by bike about 26, and on foot about 69. Over an hour's walk means the town centre is a place you drive to, not a place you walk to.
Everyday errands look similar. A food store is about 13 minutes' walk or 8 minutes' drive, so the weekly shop can be done on foot. A GP is about 22 minutes' walk, 9 minutes by car or 19 by public transport. The nearest centre of employment is about 13 minutes by car or 30 by public transport. The hospital is the long trip: about 32 minutes by car and about 69 by public transport. Bus services have been cut since 2019, so treat those public transport times as the best case.
The current bus figures are worse than the modelled times suggest. The average stop gets about seven scheduled departures on a weekday, and in the peak hour the average rounds to no buses at all. Only about a third of stops see any service at the weekend. Seven buses a day works for an occasional trip into town. It doesn't work for a daily commute.
Broadband is Liphook's real strength. About 99% of premises can get superfast broadband and about 60% can get gigabit, which is fast enough for the four in ten working from home. No premises fall below the universal service minimum. Mobile coverage is almost complete: every postcode has 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and about 99% have it from all of them.
The cost of good road links is noise. Every postcode in Liphook sits near a stretch of road mapped at or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant. The loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. The railway is a separate source: every postcode is also near mapped rail noise, at up to 65 decibels. That's the mapping, not a measurement for any particular house. If you're a light sleeper, visit at rush hour before you buy.
Public electric charging is thin. The area has two public charge points with five connectors between them, and two of those are rapid units. With so few public chargers, you'll need to plan charging or install a charger at home.
For a typical household, that means driving to work, working from home, or catching the train a few times a week and driving to everything else. It works well for anyone who expects to drive. It works less well for anyone who expected a village station to replace the car.
Liphook's connectivity is middling. Excellent broadband and short drives are held back by a bus service that barely runs and a railway most people don't commute on. Buy the house, and the second car often comes with it.