The main road through the town is Lawrence Hargrave Drive, which connects with the Princes Highway at Bulli Pass.

Moore Street connects Austinmer railway station to Lawrence Hargrave Drive, and, along with a short stretch along Lawrence Hargrave Drive, constitutes Austinmer's commercial presence, as well as a police station, school, churches, and veterinary clinic.

[2] Some have suggested that the area was originally called Sidmouth, named after the Devonshire birthplace of Robert Marsh Westmacott who owned land that now includes Austinmer.

It turns out that a future owner, one Biddulph Henning, named it Sidmouth after where he had been staying in 1891 just prior to his return to Australia and subsequent purchasing of the land in Austinmer.

[citation needed] As the historian Joseph Davis explained, the name "Sidmouth" is unrecorded prior to Henning's purchase of the property.