This was the name associated with the hill since the days of the early settlers and probably suggested by the red soil in the area.

He grazed sheep but as the suburb became built up, local pet dogs worried them and killed them.

The major streets of this area were included in an outline plan for the early development of Canberra prepared by Walter Burley Griffin in 1918.

Designed by the architectural firm of Oakley and Parkes, the house displays many characteristics of the Spanish Mission style.

Noting that it encapsulates family life of the time, it also points to the interior design and clinical appearance of the kitchen and bathroom, which "heralded the new social era".

[11] The main access to the suburb from the south is from Hindmarsh Drive onto either Mugga Way or Dalrymple Street.

The main roads through the suburb are La Perouse Street, Flinders Way and Monaro Crescent.

In the ACT Legislative Assembly, Red Hill is part of the electorate of Murrumbidgee, which elects five members on the basis of proportional representation, currently two Labor, two Liberals and one independent.

The Red Hill ridge is said by geologists to be an "erosion residual" resulting from metamorphisis of sedimentary rock.

The Yarralumla Formation sediments were toughened by thermal metamorphism from a small granite intrusion to the south thereby providing the resistant core of the ridge.

It is completely crystalline with mineral content of plagioclase, hornblende, biotite and interstitial quartz and no potash feldspar.

The Federal Golf Course hanging off the west side of Red Hill also counts as part of the suburb.