Calumet Heights, located on the South Side of the city, is one of the 77 well defined community areas of Chicago, Illinois. Calumet Heights is bounded by 87th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (along 95th Street). Calumet Heights includes the neighborhoods of Calumet Heights and Pill Hill. Beginning at about 91st Street and Constance Avenue is the geographical feature for which it was named, a stony hill that was once an island when glacial Lake Chicago covered the area thousands of years ago. Early pioneers gave this hill the name Stony Island because at a distance it looked like an island in set a trackless prairie sea.

Calumet Heights currently has 61 single family homes with an average list price of $257,624, 1 condo/townhome with a list price of $125,000, and 7 multi-unit homes with an average list price of $210,767. The average annual property tax for Calumet Heights is $2,198.