On the beach side of the highway, there is more medium density development, and land prices are very high.

This area is very picturesque, with eucalypts and a long gravel track that extends from Mordialloc Creek, past the back of St Louis De Montfort's School to the Edithvale wetlands.

The historic Doyles Bridge Hotel is situated at Number 1, Nepean Highway, Aspendale.

In conjunction with neighbouring suburb Edithvale, Aspendale has an Australian Rules football team (Edithvale-Aspendale) competing in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League (the original team of Gerard Healy and Dylan Shiel).

There was previously also Aspendale Technical School, but this was closed in the 1990s and the land was sold by the State Government to be subdivided as housing.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation facility at Aspendale houses about 150 staff from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, together with scientific facilities such as a wind tunnel for calibrating anemometers, and laboratories for studying air pollution and climate change.

The geography and ecology of the area has undergone radical changes as a result of European settlement.

Aspendale train station was built primarily to cater towards the racing crowd in the late part of the 19th century.

Aspendale Life Saving Club has a long proud history beginning in 1926 and is currently being rebuilt courtesy of state funding.

[19] In the 1960s, the art dealer and restaurateur Georges Mora had a beachside house in Aspendale which was regularly visited by artists such as Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan.

Art patrons John and Sunday Reed also had a beachhouse in the dunes of Aspendale beach.

[20] This role of Aspendale as an artists' haven was recognised in an exhibition at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in early 2008.