ZIP Code 60409 · Calumet City, Illinois
Cook County · 16,207 counted · 6 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 16,207 homes counted in ZIP Code 60409, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.
The districts named for the early grades in ZIP Code 60409, Calumet City, Illinois are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: one district arrives for high school that no elementary answer names, and another runs the early grades and stops. 6 districts hold the 16,207 homes counted here between them, and Dolton School District 149 is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 7,388 homes elsewhere: 9,914 homes with Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 157, Calumet City School District 155 and Lincoln Elementary School District 156. Districts holding under half a percent of the homes named at their own level are listed separately below and are not counted in that number.
The early grades are divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 60409 at this level. Dolton School District 149 is the largest with 6,293 homes; the smallest of them holds 2,530 homes. Dolton School District 149, Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 157 and Calumet City School District 155 are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 16,207 homes counted in ZIP Code 60409, so one cell is 463 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.
- Dolton School District 1496,293 of 16,207 homes39%
- Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 1573,738 of 16,207 homes23%
- Calumet City School District 1553,646 of 16,207 homes22%
- Lincoln Elementary School District 1562,530 of 16,207 homes16%
South Holland School District 150 reaches into ZIP Code 60409 at the grade school level and holds no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 60409 at this level. Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215 is the largest with 8,819 homes; the smallest of them holds 7,388 homes. Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215 and Thornton Township High School District 205 are named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Thornton Fractional Township High School District 2158,819 of 16,207 homes54%
- Thornton Township High School District 2057,388 of 16,207 homes46%
The set of names changes in both directions
Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215 and Thornton Township High School District 205 are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Lincoln Elementary School District 156, Dolton School District 149 and Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 157 run the early grades and no more. An address on the wrong street can therefore change district at the change of grade and land in a district that was never part of its elementary answer, while a neighbor two blocks away keeps one name the whole way through.
What one district name costs in 60409
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 60409 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 16,207 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 9,914 homes and for high school it is wrong for 7,388 homes. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.
The districts that reach into 60409
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Thornton Township High School District 205 touches 14 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 7,388 homes inside this one; Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 157 touches 1 area. Not one of them is ever the only district in a ZIP Code area anywhere in the country: every postal area they touch, they share with somebody.
- Thornton Fractional Township High School District 2158,819 of 16,207 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Thornton Township High School District 2057,388 of 16,207 here · 14 ZIP areas in all
- Dolton School District 1496,293 of 16,207 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 1573,738 of 16,207 here · 1 ZIP area in all
- Calumet City School District 1553,646 of 16,207 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
- Lincoln Elementary School District 1562,530 of 16,207 here · 1 ZIP area in all
Where Dolton School District 149 goes from here
Dolton School District 149 runs pre-K through grade 8, and it is the only school district serving 0 of the 5 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 4 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. Inside its own boundary it holds 12,330 homes over 5 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 60409 is 6,293 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Thornton Township High School District 205, across 4 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 60473 it holds 722 of 7,945 homes, or 9.1% of them.
How 60409 compares in Illinois
Across Illinois the boundary file names more than one district in 1,034 of the 1,394 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 74% of them, and 2 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 68 areas in Illinois name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,271 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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What to do next
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A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 7,388 of the 16,207 homes counted in 60409 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.
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Where these numbers come from
School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.
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Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.