Poorly, and the village has quietly reorganised itself around that fact. There is no station. Almost nobody commutes by train or bus. More than a third work from home, and most of the rest drive. Wembury has not solved its transport problem so much as arranged its life to avoid having one.
The nearest railway station is Plymouth Rail Station, which is not in the village and never has been. Under 1% of working residents commute by train, and under 1% by bus, according to the 2021 Census. There are 17 bus stops inside the area. Stops are not the same thing as a service, and the gap between those two ideas is where most rural transport marketing lives.
What people here actually do is stay put or start the engine. About 53% drive to work and roughly 37% work from home, with about 4% walking and around 2% cycling. Around 53% of households run two or more cars, and only about 8% have none. A village where more than half of households keep a second car has answered the connectivity question already, in the most expensive way available.
The nearest town centre sits about 15 minutes away by car and about 28 minutes by public transport. That is not a catastrophic gap by rural standards, and it is still a gap that decides how a Tuesday evening goes.
Broadband is the disappointment nobody warns you about. Superfast is available to about 93% of premises, which is fine. Gigabit reaches about 7%, and ultrafast the same 7%. So the working-from-home third of the village is doing it on connections that were adequate in 2018 and are merely acceptable now. Anyone whose job involves uploading large files should check the specific address rather than the headline.
Mobile is the better story: about 100% of the area gets coverage from at least one operator, and about 91% from all of them. Whether your particular network is in the 91% is a question worth settling before you move, not after.
The practical shape of a Wembury commute is this. If the work is in the house, the connectivity question barely arises. If the work is in Plymouth, it is a drive, every day, in both directions, and the second car exists precisely because two adults cannot share one.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics put the nearest town centre at about 15 minutes by car, roughly 28 minutes on public transport, about 25 minutes by bicycle and around 62 minutes on foot. These are modelled figures for the area rather than a route from any particular front door. The walk time is the honest headline: an hour on foot to the nearest town centre means walking there is not a transport option, it is an afternoon.
The same series puts the nearest doctor's surgery at about 9 minutes by car, roughly 15 minutes on public transport and about 23 minutes on foot, which is genuinely workable. A hospital is about 30 minutes by car and roughly 80 minutes on public transport. A food store is about 11 minutes by car and around 44 minutes walking, so the weekly shop is a driving job. Employment centres come out at about 23 minutes on public transport in the same modelling. One caution applies across all of it: the public transport figures date from 2019, and rural services have been withdrawn since, so treat those numbers with more scepticism than the car and walking times.
On current service data rather than modelling, those 17 stops average about 25 scheduled weekday departures each, and every one of them has some weekend service. At peak hour the average is zero buses. A stop with two dozen departures spread across a day and nothing at all in the rush hour is a service for shopping trips and school runs, not for getting to an office by nine.
Noise is the one clean win. None of the area's postcodes sits near or above 65 decibels for road noise, the level at which official mapping treats traffic noise as significant, and none does for rail noise either. There is no through-route, so there is nothing to be loud.
Connectivity is Wembury's weak spot, and it is not marginal. The village is well connected to a car park and to a coast path, and the rest of the network is somebody else's problem to reach.