Cambridge Bike theft

Cambridge · Bike theft · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Cambridge police open data recorded 419 bike theft incidents, 6.9% of all 6,105 incidents reported in the city that year and down 17.7% from 2024. That is about 346 per 100,000 residents, compared with 35.7 per 100,000 across the 12 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 382 bike theft incidents have been published.

Bike theft in Cambridge by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)382——
2025419346down 17.7%
2024509420down 11.2%
2023573473up 18.6%
2022483399down 21.2%
2021613506up 0.7%
2020609503up 45.7%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 7,458 bike theft incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most bike theft (2025)

  1. North Cambridge 80 incidents
  2. East Cambridge 57 incidents
  3. Mid-Cambridge 41 incidents
  4. Riverside 37 incidents
  5. Peabody 35 incidents
  6. Cambridgeport 32 incidents
  7. The Port 28 incidents
  8. West Cambridge 27 incidents

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

Questions

How many bike theft incidents were reported in Cambridge in 2025?

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

Is bike theft going up or down in Cambridge?

Reported bike theft was down 17.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 13.3% compared with 2022 (falling 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.

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