Fine on a laptop, awkward at a station. Gigabit broadband reaches nearly nine in ten premises. About three commuters in a thousand take the train. Buses run from seven stops in the village. Most days, it's the car or the kettle.
The rail picture starts with the fact that the village does not have its own station. The nearest options are Chichester Rail Station to the west and Barnham Rail Station to the east, both reached by road rather than on foot. That arrangement is reflected in commuting behaviour: only about three in a thousand working residents commute by train, which is the kind of number that means the option exists on paper rather than in any household's actual morning routine. Buses fare a little better but not by much. There are seven bus stops inside the village's footprint, and around two in a hundred working residents use them for the commute. That is a service for getting to a shop or a medical appointment rather than a network for getting anywhere significant on a schedule.
Broadband is where the village quietly outperforms most of the country. Gigabit-capable connections reach around eighty-seven in a hundred premises here, with ultrafast at about eighty-eight in a hundred and superfast at near-universal coverage. The share of premises below the basic universal service obligation rounds to nothing. Mobile coverage is functionally complete, with at least one operator providing modern coverage at every measured point and all operators at almost every one. For anyone whose working day depends on bandwidth rather than train timetables, this is strong infrastructure.
The practical shape of a Tangmere commute is built around a fifteen-minute car run to the Chichester town centre. The same trip by public transport takes roughly thirty-two minutes, which is what waiting for connections costs. By bike it sits at about twenty-seven minutes, and on foot it pushes over an hour. The primary-school journey by car is around seven and a half minutes; the secondary-school journey closer to twelve and a half. About six in ten working residents drive to work, around a quarter work from home, and the remaining single-digit shares are spread between walking, cycling and the buses. The car-and-laptop axis is doing nearly all of the work; everything else is incidental.
Average overall, then, but lopsided. The broadband is excellent, the road journeys are workable, and the rail and bus services are what a village three miles from a town centre tends to have, which is to say not very much. If the daily commute is rail-shaped, the village will frustrate it. If it's screen-shaped, it does the job.