Yorkletts is well connected to the internet and loosely connected to everything else. Most people drive to work. A third work from home. Hardly anyone uses the train. The fibre arrived, and the buses never quite followed it.
Rail means leaving the village. The nearest stations are Whitstable and Chestfield & Swalecliffe, with Selling in the other direction, and about 3% of working residents commute by train. There are four bus stops, and bus commuting rounds to 0%. Whatever the buses here are for, getting people to work isn't it.
The commute mix tells the story. About 55% of working residents drive, and 32% work from home, a share that suggests plenty of people concluded the best journey is the one down the landing. About 3% walk to work and about 1% cycle. Only about 5% of households have no car, while 66% have two or more. The driveway is the transport hub.
For the nearest town centre, the Department for Transport's modelling puts the trip at about 15 minutes by car and 25 by public transport.
Broadband is the part that works. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 79% of premises, and the ultrafast figure is the same 79%. Superfast broadband reaches about 92%, and 0% fall below the universal service obligation, the legal minimum for a usable connection. Someone working from home here is better served by the cable than by the lane outside.
Mobile coverage holds up as well. At least one operator provides 4G or 5G across 100% of the area, and all the major operators together cover about 99%.
For a typical commute, the answer is the car, unless the job lives in the spare room. Anyone planning a daily train should count the drive to the station as part of the journey.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics are modelled for the area, not traced from any particular front door, and they date from 2019. On those figures, the nearest town centre is about 15 minutes by car, 25 by public transport, 25 by bike and about 67 minutes on foot. That walk is the finding: nobody strolls into town from here, whatever they tell the neighbours.
The same statistics cover everyday destinations. A GP is about 12 minutes by car, 23 by public transport and about 59 minutes on foot. A hospital is about 21 minutes by car and about 69 by public transport. A food store is about nine minutes by car and 32 on foot, so the pint of milk is a driving errand. Employment centres come out at about 25 minutes by car and 18 by public transport, which is one of those modelled results that looks better on paper than at a bus stop. Distances to fixed places don't change, but the public transport times are from 2019 and services have been cut since, so trust the car and walking times more.
As for the buses themselves, each of the four stops gets about five scheduled departures on an average weekday. At the morning peak, the average is zero buses an hour. All four stops have some weekend service. A bus that doesn't run in the rush hour is a leisure option rather than a commute.
Road noise is the price of living near the roads everyone drives on. All of Yorkletts' postcodes are near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant. The loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. That's a mapped exposure at postcode level, not a verdict on any bedroom, so listen at the specific house before buying. No postcodes are near that threshold for rail noise.
Connections here are middling. The broadband and the mobile signal are strong, while the public transport barely counts as an option.