Cambridge Homicide
Cambridge · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Cambridge police open data recorded 2 homicide incidents, 0.0% of all 6,105 incidents reported in the city that year. That is about 1.7 per 100,000 residents, compared with 8.8 per 100,000 across the 59 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 2 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Cambridge by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 2 | — | — |
| 2025 | 2 | 1.7 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 0.8 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0.0 | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0.8 | — |
| 2020 | 1 | 0.8 | — |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 26 homicide incidents.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Cambridge in 2025?
2, according to Cambridge Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
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
- Cambridge theft 2,336 in 2025
- Cambridge other 2,231 in 2025
- Cambridge assault 621 in 2025
- Cambridge bike theft 419 in 2025
- Cambridge fraud 311 in 2025
- Cambridge robbery 101 in 2025
- Cambridge auto theft 84 in 2025