Poorly, unless you own a car, in which case it is fine. No railway, and nobody commutes by train because there is nothing to commute on. A handful of bus stops and almost nobody using them. Six in ten drive to work and a quarter never leave the house to do it. Tregony is connected in the way a farm is connected: by road, by broadband, and by nothing else worth the name.
There is no station here and no rail commuting at all, at 0% of working residents. Buses exist in the sense that ten stops exist, and about 1% of people take one to work. That is not a failure of enthusiasm so much as arithmetic: a bus that suits one person's shift pattern is a bus that suits nobody else's.
What the village actually does is drive. About 59% of working residents commute by car, 26% work from home, 9% walk and 1% cycles. Roughly 42% of households run two or more cars, and about 15% have none at all, which in a place like this is less a lifestyle choice than a standing arrangement with a neighbour. The car-free households here are doing something genuinely difficult, and the two-car households are doing the obvious thing.
The nearest town centre is about 21 minutes away by car and 32 by public transport on the Department for Transport's modelled journey times. A 32-minute public transport figure sounds respectable until you consider what it depends on, which is a bus turning up when you want one rather than when the timetable last allowed it.
Broadband is the part of this answer that goes the other way. About 93% of premises can get superfast, 63% can get gigabit, and none sits below the universal service obligation. For a village whose road network was set out when the traffic was agricultural, having near-universal superfast and no notspots is a genuinely strong position, and it explains why a quarter of working residents can stay put on a Tuesday morning.
Mobile coverage is similarly untroubled: a modern signal from at least one operator reaches effectively the whole area, and about 95% gets it from every operator.
In practice, the commute here is a car journey or it is a walk to a desk in a spare bedroom. There is no third option, and the households that try to invent one end up planning their week around a timetable rather than the other way round.
The full modelled picture for the nearest town centre runs to 21 minutes by car, 32 by public transport, 46 by bicycle and 115 minutes on foot. Those are national statistics modelled for the area rather than a route from any particular front door, and the public transport figures in this dataset date from 2019, so treat them with more caution than the car and walking times. The nearly two-hour walk is not a curiosity. It is the finding: this village is not within walking range of a town, and no amount of good broadband changes that.
The same statistics put a doctor's surgery about 12 minutes away by car, 19 by bicycle, 23 by public transport and 45 on foot, and the nearest hospital about 29 minutes by car or an hour by public transport. A food store is about 6 minutes either on foot or by car, which is the one everyday journey that works for everybody. Employment centres come in around 26 minutes by car and 21 by public transport. Again, distance to a fixed destination is stable, but the public transport half of that dates from 2019 and services have thinned since.
On the current bus figures rather than the modelled ones, the ten stops average about 17 scheduled weekday departures each, with roughly 2 buses an hour at peak, and 9 of the 10 stops see some weekend service. Weekend coverage at that level is better than most villages this size manage. Two an hour at peak is a service you can use if your day is flexible and a service you will resent if it is not.
Road noise is a non-issue: 0% of postcodes sit near or above the 65-decibel level at which official noise mapping treats traffic as significant, and the same goes for rail. Whatever this village lacks in transport, it gains back in quiet.
Connectivity is the weakest thing about Tregony, and it is weak structurally rather than by neglect. The broadband is excellent, the roads are quiet, and everything else assumes you have keys in your pocket.