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Calumet City city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Calumet City city is a Census city of 35,100 people across 7.20 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $55,369, 55.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 27 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $16.8 m.
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Calumet City
What Calumet City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area7.2 sq mi
- Water area0.12 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,876
- County holding the largest share of its areaCook County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calumet City
How many people live in Calumet City
- Population35,100
- Median age38.6
- Population under 188,699
- Share under 1824.8 percent
- Population 65 and over5,488
- Share 65 and over15.6 percent
- Households14,332
- Family households8,379
- Share of households that are families58.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calumet City
Income and work in Calumet City
- Median household income$55,369
- Per capita income$28,113
- Civilian labor force17,359
- Employed15,515
- Unemployed1,844 plus or minus 461
- Unemployment rate10.6 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Adults 25 and over23,229
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.1 percent plus or minus 1.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calumet City
Housing in Calumet City
- Housing units16,556
- Occupied units14,332
- Vacant units2,224
- Vacancy rate13.4 percent
- Owner occupied7,986
- Renter occupied6,346
- Ownership rate55.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$145,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,177
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.5 percent
- Single family units9,717
- Share single family58.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more6,265
- Share in buildings of two or more37.8 percent
- Mobile homes521 plus or minus 193
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calumet City
How Calumet City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute13,843
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,880 plus or minus 520
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.6 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more7,861
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more56.8 percent
- Drove alone69.0 percent
- Carpooled9.1 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Public transport9.4 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Walked2.4 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Worked from home9.8 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calumet City
SBA 7(a) lending to Calumet City borrowers
- Approvals27
- Gross approval$16,771,700
- Average approval$621,174
- Median approval$37,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,311,900
- Largest approval$4,900,000
- Jobs supported180
- Jobs per approval6.7
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full1
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.9 percent
- Share to franchises3.7 percent
- Distinct lenders11
- Distinct industries by NAICS17
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Calumet City
SBA 504 lending to Calumet City borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$6,104,000
- Average approval$1,220,800
- Median approval$332,000
- Largest approval$3,885,000
- Jobs supported81
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Calumet City
Flood programme status in Calumet City
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 5
- NFIP community number170072
- Currently effective map date08/19/08
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Cook County, not Calumet City
Cook County context, not Calumet City figures
These are Cook County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Calumet City measurements.
- Establishments in Cook County134,513
- Employment at those establishments, Cook County2,492,328
- Covered employment, Cook County2,565,567
- Average annual pay, Cook County$86,931
- Average weekly wage, Cook County$1,672
- Housing units permitted, Cook County6,507
- Of those, single family, Cook County1,142
- County product, 2024, Cook County$546,440,623,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cook County4.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cook County$91,691
Every figure in this section is published for Cook County as a whole and is not a measurement of Calumet City. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Calumet City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Calumet City, Illinois?
35,100, in 14,332 households. Calumet City city covers 7.20 square miles of land, which is 4,876 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Calumet City in?
Cook County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Calumet City?
$55,369. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $145,200. Median gross rent is $1,177 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Calumet City businesses?
27 7(a) approvals totalling $16.8 m, across 11 lenders, median approval $37,500, plus 5 504 approvals worth $6.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Calumet City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Calumet City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Calumet City. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Calumet City in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Calumet City appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170072, carrying Community Rating System class 5, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Calumet City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cook County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Calumet City.
Is zoning published for Calumet City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.