Crime Statistics for Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cambridge in September 2024. There were a total of 681 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cambridge, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime164
Shoplifting144
Anti Social Behaviour74
Other Theft59
Bicycle Theft54
Public Order52
Criminal Damage Arson28
Vehicle Crime27
Theft From The Person22
Burglary15
Drugs13
Robbery12
Other Crime10
Possession Of Weapons7
All Crime681

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cambridge. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Cambridge

We've taken the ten nearest places to Cambridge and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Cambridge has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Cambridge681
Coldham’s Common (0.62 miles)390
Arbury (1.75 miles)266
Cherry Hinton (1.75 miles)175
Fen Ditton (1.75 miles)172
Teversham (1.86 miles)163
Milton (2.56 miles)141
Newnham (1.39 miles)91
Cam (2.6 miles)46
High Cross (2.55 miles)24

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Where are the most violent places near Cambridge?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Cambridge and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Cambridge164
Coldham’s Common150
Arbury71
Teversham71
Fen Ditton48
Cherry Hinton47
Milton35
Newnham16
Cam10
High Cross2

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Cambridge?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Cambridge to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Cambridge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cambridge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cambridge is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Arbury78
2Market78
3Abbey76
4West Chesterton65
5Petersfield58
6Coleridge56
7Romsey55
8Trumpington44
9Queen Edith's28
10Castle27
11Newnham23

Which road in Cambridge has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Cambridge with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

Last updated: September 2024
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