Worthing is well connected, and the residents mostly take that on trust. Five stations sit inside the borough boundary. Over five hundred bus stops thread the town's footprint. Gigabit broadband reaches ninety-seven percent of premises. Well-provisioned and under-used, which is a story about short trips.
The borough carries five railway stations along the West Coastway Line: Worthing itself, plus West Worthing, East Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea, and Goring-by-Sea. Direct trains run to London, Gatwick Airport, Brighton, Littlehampton, and Portsmouth, which puts the town on the network most buyers want on paper. In practice, only about three percent of Worthing's working residents commute by train. The reason isn't that the network is missing anything. It's that most residents' commute is a Worthing commute, and Worthing is small enough that the train is over-specified for the trip. Neighbouring stops at Angmering, Lancing, and Shoreham-by-Sea sit on the same line and thicken the local coverage further, for anyone who needs it.
The bus network runs to just over five hundred stops within the town's footprint, which is the density expected of a coastal borough serving both residents and seasonal visitors. About two percent of commuting residents use the bus, similar to the rail share. The car takes about forty-four percent of commutes and working from home takes a third. Most trips within Worthing stay within Worthing, and the town is small enough that the bus and train are over-specified for what most residents do daily.
Gigabit broadband reaches ninety-seven percent of premises across the borough. Ultra-fast broadband reaches the same share. Superfast covers essentially every home. Mobile coverage from at least one operator hits full penetration, and coverage from all major operators does the same. A coastal town at the top of the digital-infrastructure table used to be unusual; increasingly it isn't, but the ceiling was hit here early enough that a home-office setup can be done from any address without triangulating between exchanges.
The average home sits about ten minutes by car from the town centre, seventeen minutes on public transport, or twenty-five minutes on foot. Primary schools average around ten minutes' travel; secondaries fifteen. Walking covers about eleven percent of commutes and cycling three percent, both quiet figures given the flat coastal geography. Twenty-one electric-vehicle charging locations sit across the borough, carrying fifty connection points between them, of which seven run at rapid speeds. That is not London density, but it is enough that a household without off-street parking can charge at a public site without a real detour.
Rated above average on connectivity, four out of five. Five stations, five hundred bus stops, gigabit nearly everywhere, direct trains to the major regional destinations, and a town small enough that most trips are short. The London commute is available for the residents who want it. The daily commute is usually the drive to the office over the road and the broadband router in the spare bedroom.