Pagham is a car village. Roughly six in ten working residents drive to work. Trains and buses do under one in 25 commutes between them. Gigabit broadband reaches about four in ten postcodes, superfast reaches almost all of them. What gets you out is the road. What keeps you in is the broadband.
The rail picture is the headline weakness. The nearest stations are Bognor Regis Rail Station, Chichester Rail Station, and Fishbourne Rail Station. None of them sits inside the village. Together they pull in under one in 100 of Pagham's working commuters, which is the kind of figure that tells you the train is not really a daily option for most people who live here. Bus provision is broader on paper, with about 63 stops inside the village footprint, and the bus carries roughly three in 100 commutes. That gap between stop count and actual usage tells the story of rural-and-coastal bus service everywhere on the south coast: the stops are there, the buses turn up when they turn up, the people with cars use the cars. The bus serves the people who need it. The numbers say not many people need it.
Broadband is where the village punches above its road-and-rail weight. Nearly every postcode can get superfast broadband. About four in ten can already get gigabit speeds, which by the standard of village-level coverage is decent rather than embarrassing. Mobile coverage from at least one of the major operators reaches every postcode in the village. The broadband-and-mobile picture is the reason about one in four working residents work from home. The infrastructure for not commuting is in noticeably better shape than the infrastructure for commuting.
What this means for a typical day. The local town centre is about 15 minutes by car from the average Pagham postcode, against 30 minutes by public transport, or just over an hour on foot. A primary school is reachable in around 9 minutes by car or 14 minutes by bus. A secondary school is about 15 minutes by car or 26 minutes by bus. The ratios are consistent. Driving cuts journey times roughly in half compared with the public-transport alternative. The bus does not exist to be the faster option. It exists for the people who do not have the car option.
For connectivity, Pagham scores below average. The road network is fine for what the village is, the broadband is better than the average village of this size deserves, but the train share tells the structural truth. This is not a place that connects you to a daily out-of-area commute by anything other than a car-and-park-at-the-station calculation. The buyer with no car and a daily commute beyond Bognor will discover this within the first month. The buyer who works from home will not notice the problem at all, because for them there is no problem.