Overall score
Use the Cambridge profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Oxford and other English research cores.
Overall77/100
Affordability58/100
Air quality78/100
Energy72/100
United Kingdom / Western Europe
Cambridge City Intelligence
Cambridge is an English university metro north-east of London, with concentrated research, biotech, and software activity that drives a distinctive housing and labor-market profile. Cambridge is a western europe city of about ~0.15M metro in United Kingdom. On the composite city-intelligence score, Cambridge sits around the indexed median (77/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- ~0.15M metro
Image credit: Image: Andrew Dunn / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Overall city intelligence
Good77/100
Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.
Data confidence
Directional
Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.
Verified utility layers
See country hub
Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.
Cambridge data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 77/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 58/100 | Cambridge's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies. |
| Air Quality | 78/100 | Cambridge's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated. |
| Energy | 72/100 | Cambridge's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Safety | 74/100 | Cambridge's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available. |
| Internet Speed | 75/100 | Cambridge's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references. |
| Climate Risk | 70/100 | Cambridge's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity. |
| Resilience | 70/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Emergency and public safety in Cambridge
Local public safety guidance for Cambridge, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
| Service | Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Universal emergency | 99924/7 | 999 is the primary UK emergency number; 112 also connects to the same service from any phone. |
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Cambridge, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the United Kingdom emergency profile.
Public safety sources
Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.
- European Commission: 112 — The European emergency number
Used as the primary attribution for the EU-wide 112 universal emergency number on European country profiles.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Cambridge
Healthcare context for Cambridge, with national-level information from United Kingdom where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Cambridge, see the United Kingdom healthcare profile.
Official hospital registry
NHS England service finder for locating hospitals and other NHS services by postcode.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Healthcare sources
Each entry above is attributed to an official government, public health, or recognised health-system publisher. Confirm current information directly with these sources.
- National Health Service (UK): National Health Service
Used as the primary attribution for United Kingdom public-health and hospital information.
- National Health Service (UK): Find a hospital — NHS
Used as the official England hospital registry reference for verified facility lookups.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Cambridge
Local mobility context for Cambridge, with national-level context from United Kingdom where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Cambridge, see the United Kingdom transport profile.
Transport sources
Each entry above is attributed to an official transport authority, national operator, airport publisher, or government source. Confirm current information directly with these publishers.
- UK Government: Department for Transport
Used as the primary attribution for United Kingdom national transport context.
- UK Civil Aviation Authority: Civil Aviation Authority
Used as the primary attribution for United Kingdom aviation authority information.
- Network Rail: Network Rail
Used as the primary attribution for Great Britain rail infrastructure information.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Cambridge. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Cambridge
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Cambridge will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Cambridge air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Cambridge modules
City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.
Cost of Living in Cambridge
Cambridge's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality in Cambridge
Cambridge's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy in Cambridge
Cambridge's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety in Cambridge
Cambridge's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed in Cambridge
Cambridge's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk in Cambridge
Cambridge's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Arrival planning guide for Cambridge
Practical arrival planning context for Cambridge — links into transport, public-safety, healthcare, budgeting tools, and methodology. Not an official airport or travel instruction service.
Neighborhood planning guide for Cambridge
Structured neighborhood research checklist for Cambridge — links into transport, public-safety, healthcare, arrival planning, and budgeting tools. Not a real-estate, rental, or safety-ranking service.
Moving to Cambridge planning guide
Structured relocation research checklist for Cambridge — links into country context, arrival planning, neighborhood research, cost tools, healthcare, public safety, and transport. Not immigration, visa, tax, legal, financial, medical, or property advice.
Visual guide to Cambridge
Source-attributed visual context for Cambridge using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.
Estimate a monthly budget for Cambridge
Estimate a monthly budget for Cambridge using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Cambridge
Plan a trip budget for Cambridge using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Interpretation
Use the Cambridge profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and country-level context alongside Oxford and other English research cores. Its standout dimensions are air quality (78/100) and internet speed (75/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (58/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the United Kingdom country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Cambridge appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.