Marylebone is well connected, and its residents mostly get around on foot. Most households have no car. Hardly anyone commutes by train. The buses are constant, and almost every home can get gigabit broadband. Marylebone's real connections are the pavement and the router.
London Marylebone Rail Station shares the area's name, and London Paddington, London Euston and London Kings Cross are all on the list of stations around it. At the 2021 census only about 1% of working residents took the train to work, and about 4% took the bus. There are 241 bus stops in and around the area. A major London terminus in the neighbourhood's own name, and its residents mostly use it to leave for the weekend.
How people actually got to work at that census tells the rest. About 63% worked from home, a figure taken during lockdown and so high for reasons beyond the neighbourhood. About 14% walked, about 4% drove and about 3% cycled. About 70% of households have no car at all, and only about 6% have two or more. With that few cars, the parking question answers itself.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics, based on 2019, put the nearest town centre 12 minutes away by car, about 19 by public transport, 13 by bike and 26 on foot. For a neighbourhood whose southern edge is Oxford Street, that walk time is a sign of how the model defines a town centre more than of how far the shops are.
The same 2019 model gives modelled averages for everyday trips. Distances to fixed places hold steady, but the public transport times are the least dependable part, since services have changed since then. A GP is about 5 minutes on foot or by public transport and 7 by car. A hospital is about 10 minutes by car and 14 by public transport. A food shop is about 3 minutes' walk or 7 by car. The nearest employment centre is about 5 minutes by car and 6 by public transport. On those figures, nearly everything a household needs is closer than its car keys would be.
The buses themselves are current figures. The average stop here sees 904 scheduled departures on a weekday and about 46 buses in the peak hour, and about 99% of stops have a weekend service. At that frequency the timetable hardly matters.
Gigabit broadband reaches about 93% of premises and superfast about 97%, and no premises fall below the legal minimum service. Every mobile network covers the whole area, which takes care of the phone question in a single clause.
Road noise is the cost of all this. Every postcode in the area, 100% of them, is near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise reaches that level at 0% of postcodes, so the noise comes from the roads alone. Which way the bedrooms face matters more than the floor plan, and a second viewing at rush hour will show it. The parish was laid out between two Roman roads, Oxford Street and Watling Street, and both still carry the traffic.
There are 206 public charge points in and around the area, with 264 connectors in total, and 5 of them are rapid. With so few rapid units, charging here is something to plan around, not something to do while the shopping gets done.
For getting around, Marylebone is one of the area's real strengths. It works best for people who walk, take the bus and work online, and in exchange it is noisy.