Stokenchurch is well connected by road and poorly connected by everything else. The motorway is close. Hardly anyone takes the train. The buses run, though few people use them. A third of working residents skip the commute altogether.
Saunderton Rail Station is the nearest station named locally, and the 2021 Census found well under 1% of Stokenchurch's working residents travelling to work by train. There are 29 bus stops in the area, and about 2% of commuters use them. The original London road through the village is now Colliers Lane, a bridleway, so the one route out of Stokenchurch where a horse gets priority goes nowhere a commuter needs.
About 55% of working residents drive to work and about 35% work from home. Roughly 4% walk and cycling barely registers. About 9% of households have no car, and about 54% have two or more. Most of the village gets around by car or works from home.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics, worked out for the area in 2019, put the nearest town centre about 15 minutes away by car, 37 by public transport, 44 by bike and about two hours on foot. Walking to town is effectively a day out. On the same 2019 model, a GP is about 7 minutes by car, 14 on foot or 10 by public transport, a food shop about 11 minutes' walk or 6 minutes' drive, and a hospital about 21 minutes by car or 43 by public transport. The nearest sizeable employment centre is about 15 minutes by car or 20 by public transport. Those destinations stay where they are, so the car and walking times hold up, but buses have been cut in many places since 2019, which makes the public transport times the shakiest numbers here.
The current timetable gives each stop about 12 departures on an average weekday. At peak hour the average stop gets less than one bus, and about 65% of stops have any weekend service. A bus every hour or so is a service for people who have the time to wait for it.
Broadband is far better than the buses. About 98% of the area can get superfast speeds and 67% gigabit, with the same 67% able to get ultrafast, and no postcode falls below the government's minimum service level. Every mobile network covers about 98% of the area, and at least one covers the whole lot. With a telecoms tower standing on the edge of the village, a poor signal would be hard to explain.
Every postcode in the area sits near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level at which official noise mapping treats it as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Railway noise is mapped separately, and every postcode is also flagged near 65 decibels for rail, at a highest band of 65. How loud any of that sounds indoors depends on the house, its windows and which way it faces. Stand in the garden of any house you are looking at during the evening rush hour, because that is when the motorway does most of its talking.
There is 1 public charge point in the area, with 1 connector, and no rapid chargers. Owners of electric cars will charge at home on a driveway, or go without.
Stokenchurch works if you drive or work from home, and it is poorly connected for anyone who wants to manage without a car.