Cambridge Fraud

Cambridge · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Cambridge police open data recorded 311 fraud incidents, 5.1% of all 6,105 incidents reported in the city that year and down 22.1% from 2024. That is about 257 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 202 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Cambridge by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)202——
2025311257down 22.1%
2024399329down 25.1%
2023533440up 38.8%
2022384317down 7.2%
2021414342down 64.2%
20201,158956up 274.8%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 7,360 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. North Cambridge 45 incidents
  2. East Cambridge 43 incidents
  3. Cambridgeport 39 incidents
  4. Mid-Cambridge 35 incidents
  5. Riverside 26 incidents
  6. West Cambridge 25 incidents
  7. Peabody 24 incidents
  8. The Port 22 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Cambridge in 2025?

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

Is fraud going up or down in Cambridge?

Reported fraud was down 22.1% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 19.0% 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.

Other crime types in Cambridge

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