Summer Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state
of New South Wales, Australia.
Summer Hill is located 8 kilometres west of the
Sydney central business district, in the local
government area of the Municipality of
Ashfield.

Summer Hill is a primarily residential suburb of
Sydney's Inner West, adjoining two of Sydney's
major arterial roads, Parramatta Road and
Liverpool Road. The first land grant was made in
1794 to former convict and jailor Henry Kable,
and the suburb began growing following the
opening of the railway station on the Main
Suburban railway line in 1879.

Summer Hill's boundaries are Parramatta Road
and Liverpool Road to the north, the rear of the
properties on the west side of Prospect Road
(with a detour around Trinity Grammar School)
to the West, Old Canterbury Road to the south,
and the Inner West Light Rail to the east. North
of Summer Hill is the suburb of Haberfield, to
the east is Lewisham, to the south is Dulwich
Hill, and to the west is Ashfield.

Summer Hill has a mix of Federation-era
houses, with medium density apartment
blocks near the railway station. Local
independent business people run most of the
shops. The local council has defined a village
character for the suburb. Summer Hill is a
suburb rich in heritage. More than one
hundred properties are heritage listed, and the
strong feelings of some residents of the suburb
towards protecting the local architecture has
seen the introduction of a heritage
review, which is expected to add more
properties to the heritage register.

Despite formerly being working class, Summer
Hill and many of the surrounding suburbs have
gradually undergone gentrification over recent
years. Culturally, Summer Hill is a blend of
medium-density European Sydney suburbia,
with Italian influences (which are most evident
in Leichhardt to the east and Haberfield to the
north), Eastern influences (which are most
strongly evident in Ashfield to the West), and
smaller influences from many other cultures.