Hillcrest Heights is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

[3] For mailing address purposes, it is part of the smaller community of Temple Hills and is also near Suitland.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2), all land.

Also nearby are the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland and, farther out, Joint Base Andrews and the Capital Beltway.

Much of the community was originally an estate, Colebrook, purchased in 1671 by Thomas Dent and William Hatton, and then in 1688 by Colonel John Addison.

Colebrook Manor, the family homestead of the Addisons, was built in 1808, located in Oxon Run Valley, 2/5 of a mile southeast of the Washington, D.C.

[9] Prince George's County Police Department District 4 Station in Glassmanor CDP, with an Oxon Hill postal address, serves the community.

[11][12] The CDP is served by the Prince George's County Public Schools district.

According to a Washington Post article written by Nelson Hernandez, Shugart, in which 35% of its students passed a State of Maryland mathematics proficiency test and which underwent a restructuring required by State of Maryland authorities, "is among the schools with long-standing academic problems".