Cambridge Assault

Cambridge · Assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Cambridge police open data recorded 621 assault incidents, 10.2% of all 6,105 incidents reported in the city that year and up 11.1% from 2024. That is about 512 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,325 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 508 assault incidents have been published.

Assault in Cambridge by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)508——
2025621512up 11.1%
2024559461down 12.8%
2023641529up 26.9%
2022505417up 18.0%
2021428353up 14.4%
2020374309down 10.3%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 8,092 assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most assault (2025)

  1. Cambridgeport 119 incidents
  2. Mid-Cambridge 92 incidents
  3. The Port 88 incidents
  4. Riverside 75 incidents
  5. North Cambridge 65 incidents
  6. West Cambridge 47 incidents
  7. Inman/Harrington 38 incidents
  8. East Cambridge 34 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many assault incidents were reported in Cambridge in 2025?

621, according to Cambridge Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is assault going up or down in Cambridge?

Reported assault was up 11.1% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 23.0% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Cambridge Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

Other crime types in Cambridge

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