Crime in Cambridge
Thinking about Cambridge? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try london, norwich, milton-keynes too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Cambridge centre
761crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 172
- Shoplifting 152
- Anti-social behaviour 123
- Bicycle theft 61
- 10 other categories 253
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences172
- Shoplifting152
- Anti-social behaviour123
- Bicycle theft61
- Public order45
- Criminal damage & arson43
- Other theft41
- Vehicle crime32
- Burglary26
- Robbery26
- Drugs12
- Theft from the person11
- Other crime11
- Possession of weapons6
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Cambridge. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Cambridge a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Cambridge for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Cambridge crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Cambridge?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Cambridge. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.