Recorded crime
Cambridge recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district centre, across 5 Cambridge districts. Counts, not rates.
Crimes recorded, July 2026
1,739
Across 5 districts, within about 1 mile of each centre.
- Districts
- 5
- Most recorded
- Violence
data.police.uk, July 2026
Summary
Recorded crime in Cambridge: police recorded 1,739 crimes in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of the centre of each of the 5 postcode districts with a published figure. CB3 has the lowest recorded count (136) and CB1 the highest (573). The most often recorded category was violent crime, at 28% of the month's recorded crimes. These are counts, not rates: a district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one on footfall alone.
Data from data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026.
Read this first
These are counts, not rates. data.police.uk street-level crime API publishes how many crimes were recorded near a point; it publishes no population figure to divide by. A district with a station, shops and bars will record more crime than a residential one because more people pass through it, not necessarily because residents are more likely to be a victim. Recorded crime is also only crime that was reported and recorded, and reporting rates vary by crime type and by area.
Use this to see the shape of a city and to prompt better questions, not to decide that one district is good and another bad.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on Cambridge crime counts: a wide gap that mostly reflects footfall
The police data for July 2026 counts 1,739 crimes across 5 Cambridge districts, with counts from 136 in CB3 to 573 in CB1, a wide gap that busy centres produce on their own.
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Key figures
Cambridge crime counts at a glance
Police records for July 2026. A count near each district centre is not a safety ranking.
Lowest district
136
CB3, crimes recorded
Middle district
369
Median of the districts
Highest district
573
CB1, crimes recorded
Top category
Violence
483 of 1,739 crimes
Recorded crime
Cambridge crime by category and district
1,739 recorded crimes across 5 districts in July 2026.
By category
What the recorded crimes were
Violent crime was the most recorded category, with 483 of 1,739 crimes (28%). It describes the month's police records, not what is likely to happen to you.
See the figures
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 483 | 28% |
| Anti social behaviour | 331 | 19% |
| Shoplifting | 245 | 14% |
| Criminal damage arson | 130 | 7% |
| Bicycle theft | 125 | 7% |
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
By district
Cambridge districts, lowest recorded count first
Counts run from 136 in CB3 to 573 in CB1. Each row is one postcode district: how many crimes police recorded within about a mile of its centre.
See the figures
| District | Recorded crimes | Most recorded category | Area data |
|---|---|---|---|
| CB3 | 136 | Violent crime (35) | CB3 area report |
| CB2 | 204 | Violent crime (54) | CB2 area report |
| CB5 | 369 | Violent crime (113) | CB5 area report |
| CB4 | 457 | Violent crime (138) | CB4 area report |
| CB1 | 573 | Violent crime (143) | CB1 area report |
Districts with no figure published for July 2026 are left out rather than shown as zero: a force not having published yet is not the same fact as no crime.
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
Reading the numbers
What the numbers show
Across the 5 Cambridge postcode districts with a published figure for July 2026, police recorded 1,739 crimes in total within roughly a mile of each district centroid. The median district recorded 369.
CB3 has the lowest recorded crime count of the districts listed (136), and CB1 the highest (573).
The spread across the city is wide: the highest-counting district recorded about 4.2 times as many crimes as the lowest. Much of a gap that size reflects what is in the radius: a city-centre district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one before any difference in how people behave.
The most frequently recorded category across these districts was violent crime, at 28% of all recorded crimes in the month.
Questions, answered
Cambridge recorded crime: your questions
How many crimes were recorded in Cambridge?
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Why does this page not rank Cambridge districts by crime rate?
Source and method
Where these figures come from
data.police.uk street-level crime API (API documentation), month 2026-07, one request per district at its centroid, ~1 mile radius. England and Wales only. Data.police.uk does not carry Police Scotland or PSNI. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crime locations published by police forces are snapped to anonymised map points to protect victims, so a point is never an exact address. A guide is only generated for a city where at least 5 of its districts have a published figure.
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