Well wired, less well served. The broadband is genuinely strong, with gigabit reaching roughly four in five homes. The trains are near enough to see and too far to walk to, so almost nobody commutes by rail. Nearly half drive to work and about four in ten never leave the house to do it. The fibre turned up before the timetable did, and everyday life here runs on the car and the router, not the platform.
Rail is the awkward one. The nearest usable stations, Bristol Parkway, Filton Abbey Wood and Patchway, all sit outside the village and mean a drive or a bus before you ever reach a platform, which is why the share of residents commuting by train rounds down to almost nobody, something like one in five hundred. From those stations you can reach a proper network, direct trains into the city and beyond, but only after the first leg has already used up a slice of the morning. Buses do more of the local lifting, with roughly a hundred stops dotted across the area, though only about one in forty residents actually commutes by one, which tells you they are there for the people without a car rather than the people choosing to leave theirs at home.
Where the village is unarguably connected is online. Gigabit broadband covers about four in five properties and near-enough every home can get a fast line, which is the single biggest reason the work-from-home share sits as high as it does. If your commute is a staircase and a laptop, Winterbourne is one of the better-equipped places to have it.
For anyone still travelling to a workplace, the shape of it is a car journey. The town centre is around fifteen minutes by car against nearly half an hour on public transport, and over half of households keep two cars or more, which is less a lifestyle choice than an accurate reading of the timetable. The motorway sits close enough to make driving out the default, and the village has quietly organised itself around that, right down to the second car on the drive.
Blunt version: this is an average result and an honest one, brilliant broadband bolted onto ordinary public transport, which nets out to a place that is superbly connected as long as the connection you need is the internet or a car. Turn up expecting to live here without a vehicle and the trains will teach you otherwise. Turn up planning to drive or work from home and you will barely notice the gap.