Yarnton is poorly connected unless you drive. Almost nobody takes the train to work. The buses are frequent, and only a few people use them. The broadband is good. The village is built for the car and the home office, and the commuting figures look exactly like that.
Oxford, Oxford Parkway, Hanborough and Islip are the stations within reach, and none of them is in Yarnton. At the 2021 census, under 1% of working residents commuted by train. There are 18 bus stops around the village, and about 6% of working residents took the bus to work. The trains are heard in every postcode in Yarnton and boarded by almost nobody.
The census commute splits two ways. About 45% of working residents drove to work and about 36% worked from home. Walking took about 6% and cycling about 3%. About 12% of households have no car, and about 46% have two or more. Yarnton gets to work by car or doesn't leave the house, and everything else is a rounding error.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times for the area, last calculated in 2019, put the nearest town centre about 11 minutes away by car, 16 by bike, 20 by public transport and 32 on foot. A half-hour walk to the shops in town is the finding. Driving distances hold up over the years. Bus times age badly, because services have been cut since 2019, and the public transport figures throughout this answer carry that weakness.
The same Department for Transport modelling puts a GP surgery about 10 minutes away by car, 19 by public transport and 27 on foot. A hospital is about 23 minutes by car and 44 by public transport. A food store is about a 12-minute walk or 7 minutes by car. Reaching a place of work takes about 13 minutes by car and 11 by public transport. On that last one the bus beats the car, the only race in Yarnton the bus wins.
The buses themselves are better than their passenger numbers suggest. Of the 18 stops, 11 have current timetable data, and those average about 118 departures a weekday, six or seven an hour at peak, and every one of them has a weekend service. Those are averages across stops, so the timetable at the stop nearest the house you are viewing is the one to check, and it takes two minutes. On paper, a bus most of the day is what the village has. In practice most of Yarnton drives past it.
Superfast broadband reaches every premises in Yarnton, ultrafast about 81% and gigabit about 74%, and nobody falls below the legal minimum service. Mobile is close to complete, with every premises getting 4G or 5G from at least one network and 98% from all of them. For the third of the workforce working from home, this is the part of Yarnton's connections that works.
Every postcode in Yarnton sits near or above the 65-decibel line on the official road noise mapping, the level at which that mapping treats noise as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. Rail noise is a separate source and reaches the same threshold in every postcode, also peaking in the 75-decibel band. How loud any one house is depends on where it faces and what stands between it and the road or line.
Yarnton has one public charge point, with three connectors, and one of them is a rapid charger. With a single rapid unit, a household with an electric car will want to charge on its own drive.
Yarnton is poorly connected. The broadband is first-rate, and the rest is a car journey.