Not well, unless you count the broadband. Half the working residents drive. Almost nobody takes a train. The buses exist, in the sense that a stop exists and something stops at it. What saves the place is a fibre connection good enough that a lot of people stopped commuting altogether.
Four stations sit within reach of the village: Penryn, Penmere, Falmouth Town and Perranwell, all on the branch line rather than anything fast. Despite that, only about 1% of working residents commute by train. Buses do slightly better at about 2%, spread across nine stops. Put together, roughly three in a hundred people here get to work on public transport, which is a verdict rather than a statistic.
The commute mix explains the village properly. About 52% drive to work and about 29% work from home, with around 8% walking and about 1% cycling. Around 50% of households run two or more cars, and about 10% have none at all. A village where half the households own multiple cars is not a village where anyone is waiting at a bus stop by choice.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest town centre at about 14 minutes by car and about 34 by public transport. Doubling your journey time is the price of not driving, and that is the offer at its most generous.
Those same statistics, which model the area rather than any particular front door, put the town centre at about 27 minutes by bicycle and about 69 minutes on foot. An hour and a bit of walking each way is not a commute, it is a hobby. Worth noting that the public transport figures in this series date from 2019 and bus services have been cut across rural Cornwall since, so treat them as the optimistic version. The car and walking times are stable, because hills do not move.
Broadband is where the village quietly wins. Gigabit service reaches about 77% of premises, ultrafast the same, and superfast about 98%. No premises fall below the minimum decent-speed standard at all. For a granite village on a hill, that is a better connection than plenty of market towns manage.
Mobile is similarly sorted: about 100% of the area gets fourth or fifth generation coverage from at least one operator, and about 95% gets it from all of them.
For everyday errands, the same modelled statistics give a food store at about 8 minutes on foot or about 6 by car, a doctor's surgery at about 12 minutes by car, 17 by bicycle, 21 by public transport and 36 on foot, and employment centres at about 6 minutes by car against about 23 by public transport. The hospital is the long one, at about 30 minutes by car and about 53 by public transport. Nobody is getting to an appointment on a bus and back in a morning.
On the buses as they actually run, the stops with timetable data average about 10 scheduled departures on a weekday, with an average of under one bus per stop in the peak hour. All of those stops get some weekend service, which is genuinely better than most Cornish villages manage. Ten departures a day is a lifeline service rather than a network, and the peak-hour figure is the one a commuter should read twice.
Road noise is the one environmental note. All of the area's postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise does not register anywhere. Where a particular house falls within that spread depends entirely on which side of the village it sits, and a viewing with the window open will tell you more than any map.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about this village by a clear distance. Buy here with a car and a home office and it works; buy here expecting to rely on the timetable and it will wear you down by the second winter.