Soldiers Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located directly north of the Central Business District.

It has a substantially intact Victorian era architectural character, with many of its buildings featuring an abundance of period detail including distinctive decorative cast iron ornament.

Soldiers Hill covers a relatively small area bounded by the Mildura Railway Line to the west, the Serviceton Railway Line to the south, Havelock Street and the Yarrowee River to the east and Howitt Street to the north and is primarily residential.

A natural escarpment forms its southern edge which has been accentuated by the flattening of land to the south for the construction of the railway reserve.

The hill slopes to valleys in the east and west of the suburb's borders through which small seasonal creeks flow.

The Gnarr Creek, for most of its length little more than an urban stormwater drain, winds its way through the suburb's north, crossing the railway reserve at Little Clyde Street to the west.

The eastern border slopes to the valley of a small unnamed natural watercourse that flows into the Yarrowee from the north.

Before European settlement, the area around Soldiers Hill was populated by Wathaurong people, an Indigenous Australian tribe.

The hill itself was a steep escarpment that formed part of a greater range and was a schist of quartz and tall stringybark trees.

Religious congregations established themselves at the highest point of the hill along with the large homes of the wealthy while middle class cottages and industry sprang up closer to the railway station.

In the 1880s the suburb was heavily subdivided as it became a favoured place of residence for Ballarat's middle and upper classes with the city readily accessed by tramway.

The suburb also includes many narrow iron laced cottages and a smaller collection of Interwar and modern infill homes.

The suburb's proximity to the CBD greatly influences resident modes of transportation in comparison to the Ballarat average.

[6] However like most Australian suburbs, automobiles are the main form of transport, with the vast majority of commuters (64.1%) travelling to work by car (though less than the Ballarat average of 74%).

There is only one designated collector road, Howitt Street, which runs along the suburb's east west border although it is also a single carriageway.

[6] Pedestrian facilities include a network of footpaths on most streets, some such as Lydiard and Doveton Crescent being upgraded with tactile paving for disability access.

Soldiers Hill benefits from the trend toward intercity commuting in being the closest residential area to Ballarat station.

Given the small area of the suburb, hotels (or corner pubs) have been an important social focus since the gold rush, however may have ceased to operate.