Badly, unless you own a car or a laptop. There is a railway station, which is more than most villages this size manage, and hardly anybody uses it to get to work. Buses exist as street furniture. More than a third of working residents never leave the house on a weekday. The station is the thing everyone mentions and the car is the thing everyone actually uses.
Tisbury Rail Station sits in the village and puts it on a mainline, which is genuinely unusual for a place this rural. About 3% of working residents commute by train. Buses are the weaker half: 21 stops across the area, used by under 1% of working residents to get to work.
The commute mix explains the village better than any transport list. About 46% drive to work and roughly 36% work from home, which between them account for most of the working population. Around 9% walk, and cycling and the train sit at about 1% and 3%. Car ownership follows: roughly 43% of households run two or more vehicles, and about 13% have none at all. Two cars per household is not an indulgence here, it is the operating requirement.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics model the nearest town centre at about 25 minutes by car and about 38 minutes by public transport. Those are modelled figures for the area rather than a route from any particular front door. By bicycle the same trip models at roughly 52 minutes, and on foot it exceeds two hours, which is the polite statistical way of saying you cannot walk to town. That walk time is the finding, not a footnote.
Broadband is where the working-from-home figure starts to look like a gamble. Superfast reaches about 99% of premises, so the basics are covered. Gigabit reaches about 10%, and ultrafast the same. No premises fall below the universal service obligation. For a village where more than a third of workers are on video calls from a spare bedroom, a 10% gigabit figure is the single most awkward number on this page.
Mobile coverage is better and barely worth arguing about: at least one operator reaches the whole area, and all operators reach about 98% of it.
For everyday errands, the modelled times are kinder. A doctor's surgery is about 7 minutes by car, 11 by public transport and 12 on foot. A food store is roughly 7 minutes by car and about 11 minutes walking, which is the one genuinely village-scale journey in the whole set. A hospital models at about 46 minutes by car and 65 by public transport. Employment centres model at around 36 minutes by public transport and, oddly, longer by car, which reflects where the modelled destinations sit rather than anything about the roads. The public transport figures in this set date from 2019, and rural services have generally been reduced since, so treat those with more caution than the car and walk times.
The bus figures are current, and they are the ones that matter. Across the stops with published service data, the average is about 9 scheduled departures per stop on a weekday, with effectively none in the peak hour. Roughly 88% of stops have some weekend service. Nine departures spread across a day is a lifeline service, not a commuting option, and no peak-hour provision means it was never designed to get anyone to an office.
On noise, every postcode in the area sits near or above the 65-decibel threshold that official mapping treats as the point where road noise becomes significant, with a loudest band of 75 decibels present somewhere in the area. That is a mapping-wide finding rather than a prediction about any particular house, and in a village strung along a valley road it is worth listening for on a viewing. Rail noise does not register on the same measure.
For electric vehicles there are 2 public charge points in the area, offering 4 connections between them, none of them rapid. Charging here is something you plan around overnight, not something you do while buying milk.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about Tisbury by a distance. The railway station saves it from being cut off entirely, but the honest description is a car-dependent village with a good train and a bad broadband map, where the commute most people have solved is the one that ends in the spare room.