Better connected than most coastal towns its size. Three railway stations serve the immediate area, with direct trains to London and along the coast. Gigabit broadband reaches roughly seven in ten postcodes. The bus network covers around 288 stops across the wider area. A working set of connections, without the polish of somewhere closer to London.
On rail, Littlehampton Rail Station is the town's own, with Angmering Rail Station and Ford Rail Station on the same line covering the immediate overspill. Beyond them, the wider network reaches Arundel Rail Station, Barnham Rail Station, Amberley Rail Station, Goring-by-Sea Rail Station, Durrington-on-Sea Rail Station and West Worthing Rail Station within a short hop on the same coastal network. Direct trains run to London and along the south coast. Only about 2% of workers commute by train, which tells you most people work locally or drive, but the option to reach London for a day meeting is genuinely there when the week calls for it.
On the buses, the wider area has around 288 stops covering the main routes and the villages between them. Only about 1% of workers commute by bus, which suggests the network is more a fill-in-the-gaps option than a daily commuting spine. It is the kind of service that keeps the town functionally covered without turning into anyone's preferred mode.
On broadband, gigabit availability reaches around seven in ten postcodes here, which is proper coverage for a town of this size and not the sort of thing you would take for granted a few years ago. Nearly all postcodes can get super-fast broadband. None sit below the universal service obligation floor. For anyone working from home, which is what roughly a quarter of local workers do, the digital connection is doing more of the daily work than the physical one.
For getting about, local journey-time figures put the town centre roughly nine minutes away by car, twelve minutes by cycle, and around fifteen on public transport. Primary schools sit within about seven minutes by car, secondaries within about ten. Roughly 54% of workers drive to work, about a quarter work from home, and the walking, cycling, and train shares all sit in single digits. Which is what happens when a town centre, a station, and a set of villages are all within a short drive of each other, and the main outward journey for most people is not to a London desk.
The connectivity here is better than the coastal average and not as good as the commuter-belt version. Three railway stations, direct trains to London, gigabit broadband across most of the town, and a bus network that covers the villages. Not London-commuting standards. Comfortably above what the average south-coast town of this size actually offers.