Tetbury is poorly connected unless you have a car, and most households have at least one. The average bus stop gets a handful of departures a day. The railway left a lifetime ago. Gigabit broadband reaches fewer than one home in five. Everyone who can drives or works from home.
Tetbury's railway station closed in 1964, and there is no station in the area today. Under 1% of working residents commute by train. The town has 41 bus stops, but under 1% of commuters use them for work. A second line once ran just outside town, with a stop at Trouble House Halt from 1959 to 1964, and in hindsight the name told everyone how it would end.
Most people here get around by driving or by working from home. On the census figures, 45% of working residents drive to work and 39% work from home. Another 9% walk and 1% cycle. About 12% of households have no car, and 47% have two or more.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, which date from 2019, put the nearest town centre 8 minutes away by car, 13 by bike, 15 by public transport and 24 on foot. Every option gets there in under half an hour, which is about the best this answer has to say about getting around.
The same 2019 statistics are less kind for everything beyond the town centre. A GP surgery is 18 minutes by car, 35 by public transport and about 104 minutes on foot. A hospital is 47 minutes by car and 95 by public transport. A food shop is 8 minutes by car or 21 on foot, and the nearest large employment centre 9 minutes by car or 24 by public transport. These are modelled averages for the whole area, and while the distances don't change, the bus figures describe a 2019 timetable and services have been cut since, so read them as the most generous version. A GP surgery well over an hour and a half away on foot is the most telling figure here.
Bus departures tell you more than the number of stops. On a weekday, the 20 stops with timetable data average seven departures each, and half a bus per stop in the peak hour. About 80% of those stops have some service at weekends. Seven departures a day is enough for a shopping trip and too few for a commute.
Superfast broadband reaches 98% of premises and nobody falls below the legal minimum, but gigabit and ultrafast both reach only 17%. Every postcode has a mobile data signal from at least one network, and 96% get every network. With four in ten working from home, check gigabit availability for the actual house on Ofcom's coverage checker, because the town-wide figure varies from one street to the next.
Road noise is where Tetbury surprises. Every postcode in the area is near a stretch of road at or close to 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping counts road noise as significant. The loudest stretches reach the 70 to 75 decibel band. Rail noise registers at 0%, which is one thing the 1964 closure gave the town. How loud any particular house is depends on its distance from the road, its facing and its windows, and the mapping can't tell you that.
Tetbury has three public charge points with four connectors between them, and none of them is rapid. Charging an electric car here means home charging or planning ahead, because a rapid top-up while doing the shopping isn't an option yet.
Connectivity is one of Tetbury's real weaknesses. A car and a decent home connection go a long way, and without either of them almost every journey here is hard work.