It is located 45 kilometres (28 mi) southeast of Oslo and is easily reached by both car and bus and train.

At the most there used to be 16 daily buses to Oslo (the capital of Norway), and about 21 train departures.

Like the rest of the Indre Østfold region, many of the citizens of Spydeberg commute daily to Oslo for work.

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Spydeberg farm (Old Norse: Spjótaberg), since the first church was built here.

The model for the spear points was unearthed at a burial mound near Mørk in 1905.