Tring is reasonably connected by road and broadband and poorly by anything that runs to a timetable. Almost half its workers were working from home at the last census. Only about one in fifty took the train. The buses come a bit more often than once an hour at peak. Most people drive, and the rest stay at home and use the internet.
Tring Rail Station has direct trains to London Euston on the West Coast Main Line, with Cheddington and Wendover stations also in reach, though Tring's own station is out east of the town. At the 2021 census, only about 2% of Tring's working residents went to work by train and about 1% by bus, even though the town has 54 bus stops. The deep cutting the railway was dug through near Tring was famous enough in the 1830s to be drawn in a series of lithographs, and at the census it carried fewer of Tring's workers than walked to work.
About 45% of working residents worked from home at that census, taken in 2021 while much of the country was still working from home by necessity. About 39% drove and about 8% walked. About 12% of households have no car, and about 46% have two or more. For most families in Tring, the car is how everyone gets anywhere.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics model the nearest town centre at about 8 minutes from a Tring home by car, 10 by bike, 13 by public transport and 15 on foot. Those are modelled averages for the area, so the times for any one house will be different.
The same Department for Transport set puts a GP about 7 minutes away by car, 12 by public transport and 13 on foot, and a food shop about 10 minutes' walk or 7 minutes' drive. A hospital is about 23 minutes by car and about 56 by public transport, and a centre of employment about 14 minutes by car and 22 by public transport. These are modelled averages for the area, and the public transport times date from 2019, so any bus cut since then makes those figures look better than the real journey. Without a car, the hospital is close to an hour away.
The buses that do run serve most of the town. Tring's stops average about 26 scheduled departures each on a weekday, about 1.5 an hour at peak, and about 98% of stops have some weekend service. That is a usable service for shopping, and too thin to plan a working day around.
Broadband is good. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 72% of premises in Tring, superfast about 96%, and none fall below the legal minimum service level. Almost every home gets a 4G or 5G signal from every network. The internet reaches Tring more reliably than the buses do.
Road noise is the surprise. About 99% of Tring's postcodes are near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping counts road noise as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate source, with about 15% of postcodes near or above the same threshold and a top band of 75 decibels. The government's strategic noise maps show the bands street by street, and they are the quickest way to see how close a particular house is to the loudest roads. The bypass was opened in 1973 as the first stretch of a motorway that was never built, and the town got the traffic anyway.
There are 3 public charging points in Tring with 10 connectors between them, and 1 of them is rapid. With only one rapid charger, an electric car owner needs a charger at home.
Tring's connections are below average, fine for drivers and home-workers and hard work for anyone who wants to get by on trains and buses.