Pangbourne is connected well enough, provided the household has a car and a decent router. Half the working residents don't commute at all. About a third drive. Hardly anyone takes the bus. The station gets the credit, and the car does the work.
Pangbourne Rail Station is on the Great Western Main Line, with stopping services to London Paddington via Reading and to Oxford via Didcot Parkway. Tilehurst, Theale and Goring & Streatley are the neighbouring stations. At the last census, about 3% of working residents took the train to work. There are 24 bus stops in and around the village, and fewer than one worker in a hundred used a bus to get there. A station is something people like to tell their friends about. Using it is another matter.
The commute runs through the house. About half of working residents worked from home at the last census, about 35% drove, 6% walked and 1% cycled. About 12% of households have no car, and about 47% run two or more. The village sells itself on the railway, and what it mostly runs on is a broadband connection and a second car on the drive.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics are modelled for the area as a whole, not for a route from any particular door, and they date from 2019. On those figures, the nearest town centre is about 8 minutes by car, 10 by bike, 11 by public transport and 14 on foot. That's close enough to walk, which in practice means close enough to drive and feel slightly guilty about it.
Everyday journeys follow a similar pattern. A GP is about 8 minutes by car, 13 by public transport and 16 on foot. A food store is about 7 minutes by car and 12 on foot. A hospital is about 27 minutes by car against 56 by public transport. The nearest large group of jobs is about 16 minutes by car and 19 by public transport, and about 103 minutes on foot, so walking to work is not a serious option. The public transport times date from 2019 and services have been cut since, so they deserve more caution than the car and walking times. On a bus, the hospital is closer to an hour away than half an hour.
Broadband is where the village holds its own. About 95% of premises can get superfast broadband and about 66% can get gigabit. Fewer than one in a hundred fall below the legal minimum service level. With half the workforce at the kitchen table, the connection matters more here than the timetable does.
Mobile coverage is complete: every postcode has 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and about 99% from all of them. Nobody here has to stand at the end of the garden to make a call.
Road noise reaches further than the countryside setting suggests. About 99% of postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level at which official mapping treats traffic noise as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate measure: about 24% of postcodes sit near or above the same 65-decibel threshold for trains, with the loudest band also at 75. None of that says how loud any particular house will be. A protected landscape does not come with a mute button, and a viewing should include time with the windows open.
The area has 1 public electric car charge point, with 1 connector and no rapid chargers. Anyone with an electric car here charges at home or plans the trip around the charger, because charging while doing the weekly shop isn't possible.
Pangbourne is middling for connections: the car and the fibre do well, and the bus has more or less given up. Buyers who need to leave the village every day should count on driving.