Cambridge
What’s happening
Weather
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Outdoors in Cambridge
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About Cambridge
City in the United StatesCambridge ( KAYM-brij) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the Greater Boston metropolitan area directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the most populous city in the county, the fourth-largest in Massachusetts behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, and ninth-most populous in New England. The city was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, which was an important center of the Puritan theology that was embraced by the town's founders. Founded in December 1630 during the colonial era, Cambridge was one among the first cities established in t…
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How Cambridge ranks
All →Town numbers
Housing in Cambridge
The typical Cambridge home is worth about $1,032,000, down 0.6% in a year, 56% above the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Cambridge
Safety Grade D
Cambridge reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 86% report less. Compared with places its own size, it does better than 42%.
Schools in Cambridge
All Cambridge schools →School Grade B
The public schools Cambridge’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 57% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within MA. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Cambridge is
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