Badly, unless you own a car. Six in ten working residents drive to the job and around a third never leave the house to do it. Five bus stops. The nearest railway platform belongs to the next town along. Sticker is connected in the sense that the roads exist and they go places.
St Austell Rail Station is the nearest station, and it is not in the village. Under 1% of working residents commute by train, which is what happens when the platform sits in somebody else's postcode. Sticker itself has 5 bus stops, and about 1% of residents use a bus to get to work.
The commute mix from the 2021 census tells the story faster than any transport list can. About 59% of working residents drive, about 32% work from home, about 3% walk and about 1% cycle. Roughly 10% of households have no car at all, while about 43% run two or more. In a village built around those numbers, the second car is less a luxury than a piece of household infrastructure.
The nearest town centre models at about 13 minutes by car against about 28 minutes by public transport. By bicycle the same trip comes out at about 26 minutes, and on foot at about 72 minutes. These are Department for Transport modelled statistics for the area rather than a route from any particular front door, and the walk time is the finding rather than a footnote: an hour and a quarter each way is not a journey anyone repeats, so the car figure is the only one describing real life.
Broadband is where the village stops behaving like a remote one. Superfast is available at about 98% of premises, ultrafast at about 32% and gigabit at about 20%, with nothing below the universal service obligation. For a place where around a third of workers depend on the line holding up through a video call, that is the connection that actually matters.
Mobile coverage reaches about 100% of the area from at least one operator and about 95% from every operator, so unless you are loyal to the unlucky network, the signal is not the argument.
For everyday destinations, the same modelled statistics put a family doctor at about 14 minutes by car, about 33 by public transport and about 69 minutes on foot. The nearest hospital models at about 37 minutes by car and about 70 by public transport. A food store is the closest thing to hand at about 8 minutes by car or about 21 minutes walking. The nearest employment centre comes out at about 46 minutes by car and about 29 by public transport. Every public transport figure here dates from 2019 and rural timetables have not been growing since, so read those as the generous version. Distance to a fixed destination is the part that stays honest.
Bus stops are not a bus service, so the service behind those 5 stops is the number worth having. They average about 31 scheduled departures on a weekday between them, about 2 an hour at peak per stop, and all 5 carry some weekend service. That is a genuine timetable rather than a token one, and it is still a timetable you organise your day around instead of glancing at on the way out.
About half the village's postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels of road noise, which is the threshold at which official noise mapping treats traffic as significant, and 65 decibels is also the loudest band recorded here. That is a mapping category rather than a forecast about any particular bedroom window. Rail noise does not register at all, for reasons the train commute figure has already made obvious.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about Sticker, and it is not a close contest. Bring a car and a decent router and the village works perfectly well. Arrive intending to manage without either, and the timetable will explain the situation before the end of the first week.