Better connected than a town this size has any right to be, and the locals mostly drive anyway. Four directions of railway meet here. About one in fifty commutes by train. More than half drive to work and a quarter never leave the house to do it. The infrastructure is national scale and the habits are entirely small town.
Westbury (Wilts) Rail Station sits northwest of the centre and is the reason anyone outside Wiltshire has heard of the place, since this is where the London to Penzance route crosses the line linking Bristol and Bath Spa to Salisbury, Southampton, Portsmouth and London Waterloo. Dilton Marsh Rail Station covers the southwest of the town as a request stop, and Warminster and Trowbridge stations are both within reach. For all that, only about 2% of residents commute by rail. There are 96 bus stops within the town, and about 1% commute by bus.
What people actually do is drive. Around 57% get to work by car, about 26% work from home, roughly 7% walk and about 1% cycles. Roughly 15% of households have no car at all, while about 45% run two or more. That last figure explains more about Westbury's driveways than any planning document could.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics put the nearest town centre at about 16 minutes by car, 29 minutes by public transport, 32 minutes by bicycle and 86 minutes on foot. These are modelled for the area rather than measured from any particular front door. The walking figure is the honest one: nobody is strolling to the nearest town centre, and the bicycle beats the bus by a margin that says something about both.
Broadband is the strongest link the town has. Gigabit-capable service reaches about 88% of premises, superfast reaches about 98%, and nothing sits below the universal service obligation minimum. Mobile coverage runs to all premises from at least one operator, with about 98% covered by all of them.
For everyday errands the same modelled statistics put a food store at about 12 minutes on foot or 7 by car, and a doctor's surgery at roughly 10 minutes by car, 17 by public transport or 28 on foot. Employment centres come in at about 24 minutes by car and 18 by public transport, which is one of the few journeys where the train genuinely wins. A hospital is the outlier at around 44 minutes by car and about 85 minutes by public transport. The public transport figures in that set date from 2019, and services have been withdrawn across the country since, so treat them with more suspicion than the car and walk times.
The buses themselves are more serious than the raw stop count suggests. Stops average around 43 scheduled weekday departures, roughly 3 of them in the peak hour, and about 85% carry some weekend service. That is a working bus network rather than the two-a-day arrangement most Wiltshire towns quietly settle for.
Road noise is the price of sitting on a through route. Almost every postcode in the town, roughly 99%, sits near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate matter and affects less of the town, with about 14% of postcodes near the 65-decibel threshold and a top band of 70. Neither figure predicts what any specific house sounds like with the windows shut, but both are worth a viewing at rush hour rather than on a Sunday.
Electric vehicle charging is the weak link. There are 3 public charge points in the area offering 5 connectors between them, of which 1 is rapid. Charging here is something you plan around rather than something you do while picking up milk.
Connectivity is one of the better arguments for Westbury, held up by the railway and the broadband rather than anything on four wheels. What it does not give you is a town where the car is optional, and the charging network suggests it will be a while before that changes.