Not well, unless you count the car, which everyone here does. Six in ten working residents drive to work. A quarter do not leave the house to work at all. Half the households run two cars or more. The broadband is better than the bus timetable, which is most of rural Cornwall summed up in one line.
Rail is technically present and practically irrelevant. The nearest stations are St Erth and Hayle, with Lelant, Lelant Saltings and Carbis Bay further along the same stretch of line, and every one of them is a drive away rather than a walk. The share of working residents commuting by train rounds to zero. Buses do better on paper: the area holds 95 bus stops, and about 1% of working residents commute by bus.
The commute mix tells the honest story. About 61% drive to work and about 25% work from home, with about 6% walking and about 1% cycling. Around 50% of households run two or more cars, and about 10% have no car at all. Those two figures are the ones to sit with before buying. A second vehicle here is not an indulgence, it is infrastructure, and the 10% managing without one are mostly not commuting anywhere.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics, which model typical journeys for the area rather than a route from any particular front door, put the nearest town centre at about 15 minutes by car, 27 minutes by public transport, 28 minutes by bicycle and 74 minutes on foot. That last figure is not a curiosity. Walking to town is a two-hour round trip, so it is not a thing anyone does twice.
The same statistics put a doctor's surgery at about 14 minutes by car, 28 by public transport and 67 on foot, a hospital at about 27 minutes by car and 56 by public transport, a food store at about 10 minutes by car and 35 on foot, and employment centres at about 8 minutes by car and 43 by public transport. The car and walking times hold up well, because the distance to a fixed destination does not change. The public transport figures date from 2019 and rural services have been cut since, so treat every one of them as the optimistic version.
Current bus data is more useful than modelled times, and it is not bad. Stops in the area average about 26 scheduled weekday departures each, with about 1.4 buses an hour at peak, and about 92% of the stops carrying service data run something at weekends. That is a real service rather than a school bus with ambitions, but at fewer than two an hour in the busiest part of the day, it is a timetable you plan around rather than one you turn up for.
Digital connectivity is the strong half of the answer. Gigabit and ultrafast broadband both reach about 79% of premises, and superfast reaches about 89%. Mobile coverage from at least one operator effectively reaches every premises, with about 95% covered by all operators. Noise, for once, is a non-issue: no postcodes in the area sit near or above the 65 decibel threshold at which official mapping treats road noise as significant, and none reach it for railway noise either.
Electric vehicles are the gap. The area has 2 public charge points offering 6 connectors between them, and none of them are rapid. Charging here is something you schedule overnight on your own driveway, not something you do while buying milk, and anyone arriving without off-street parking should work that out before the second car arrives.
Connectivity lands middling, propped up by broadband and dragged down by everything with wheels. Working from home is easy, driving is essential, and the plan that involves a train and no car does not survive contact with the timetable.