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Cambridge crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 16,589 street-crime records for the Cambridge council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.9% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 114.0 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.7 for Cambridgeshire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Cambridge council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Cambridge: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
16,589
Latest month (August 2026)
1,691
Year-on-year
+3.9%
Month-by-month totals
1,6910
1.3k
Sep
1.3k
Oct
1.3k
Nov
1.2k
Dec
1.3k
Jan
1.1k
Feb
1.5k
Mar
1.3k
Apr
1.5k
May
1.6k
Jun
1.6k
Jul
1.7k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
1,282
October 2025
1,347
November 2025
1,267
December 2025
1,154
January 2026
1,283
February 2026
1,109
March 2026
1,463
April 2026
1,333
May 2026
1,481
June 2026
1,600
July 2026
1,579
August 2026
1,691
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Cambridge council area
114.0
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
95.7
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
16,589 records and 145,511 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the Cambridge council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences28.8%
4,784 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour15.1%
2,509 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting14.6%
2,421 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft6.4%
1,066 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.2%
1,033 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order5.8%
969 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Bicycle theft5.6%
936 records · England and Wales 0.9%
Drugs4.1%
676 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Where records cluster in the Cambridge council area
Records by part of the Cambridge council area: the north 3,921, the north-east 3,715, the north-west 3,224, the south-east 2,171, the east 1,747, the south 1,330, the west 303, the centre 248, the south-west 227.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of the Cambridge council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Cambridge council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Cambridge council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Cambridge council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Cambridge council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000008), which can differ from the place people call Cambridge.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Cambridge. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.