Decently, for what it is. Roughly half of working residents drive to their jobs. More than a third work from home. Trains and buses between them move only a few per cent of commuters. The infrastructure that matters here is the car and the cable.
The rail picture is unusual for a village this size. Six stations sit within practical reach: Ryde Esplanade, Ryde Pier Head and Ryde St Johns Road at the town a couple of miles up the coast, Brading on the line running south, Sandown further along, and Smallbrook Junction completing the local list. None of them is inside the village itself. The data suggests the stations are used the way coastal-village stations usually are, which is to say sparingly: fewer than one working resident in 250 commutes by train. Buses do slightly more of the daily lifting, but not much. About one working resident in 80 commutes by bus, with around forty bus stops scattered across the village area to serve a population near 2,500.
Broadband is the standout. Gigabit-capable connections cover about nine in ten premises in the village. Superfast availability is near-universal at around 98 per cent. No premises sit below the universal service obligation threshold. Every postcode has at least one mobile operator providing fast service, and almost every postcode has all of them. The cables work harder than the timetables.
What this means for a typical commute is straightforward. The working population sorts itself into two groups: those who drive and those who do not need to leave. The nearest town centre runs around thirteen minutes by car and around twenty-two by public transport, with the walk closer to fifty-four. The nearest secondary catchment runs around fourteen minutes by car and closer to thirty-eight by bus or train. Cycling moves about two per cent of commuters, which is roughly what you would expect on a coastal stretch where the nearest piece of the national cycle network sits about three and a half kilometres from the average postcode. There are two electric-vehicle chargers in the area, neither of them rapid. The default is the car, not because the alternatives are awful but because the alternatives are infrequent. Anyone planning to commute off the island regularly is also planning to use a ferry or a hovercraft to get there, and to live with the timetable accordingly.
For a small Solent-facing village this lands at average on a five-point connectivity scale: real road options, real fibre options, and a public-transport offer that exists more as a backup than as a default. Useful if you own a car, less so if you do not, and best of all if most of your work can be done at the kitchen table.