Cambridge Neighborhood Census Data

• Education Attainment of Population 25 Years of Age or Older
• Family and Non-Family Households
• Families with Children
• Labor Force and Unemployment
• Median Family Income
• Median Household Income
• Median Rent (adjusted and unadjusted)
• Persons Attending School
• Persons Residing in Group Quarters
• Persons Per Household
• Place of Birth and Primary Home Language
• Place of Residence 5 Years Prior to Census
• Population by Age
• Population by Age Under and Over 18 - 1980 and 2000 only
• Population Density and Racial Mix Map
• Population Summary of Total and Change (HTML)
• Population and Housing Density
• Poverty Status of Families
• Poverty Status of Individuals
• Racial and Hispanic Composition - Detailed
• Racial and Hispanic Composition - Summary
• Tenure of Housing Units (Owner vs. Renter)

Many of the neighborhood demographics tables are available in a single document, our Neighborhood Demographics Profile (1.0 MB).

Other Neighborhood Data Tables

• Condominium Conversions and New Construction
• Housing Sales
• Publicly Owned Open Space by Neighborhood (total amount and open space per 1000 persons) - Taken from the Green Ribbon Open Space Report.

Detailed Neighborhood Census Reports

The following documents were produced under the auspices of specialized programs following both the 1980 and 1990 U. S. Census. No equivalent report exists from the 2000 U. S. Census. These files are in PDF format and require use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.Please note that both documents are scanned copies of paper originals. As a consequence, legibility varies from fair to poor. You may want to view these documents while viewing them at 200% magnification in Acrobat viewer. Paper copies are available upon request at no charge.

• 1980 Neighborhood Statistics Report for Cambridge (1.5 MB)
• 1990 General and Family Characteristics (4.7 MB)

Data Sources

The data in the tables derives from U. S. Census Bureau as follows:

• 1980 data from the Neighborhood Census Program
• 1990 data from the User Defined Areas Program
• 2000 data from either the SF1 data file compiled from the results of the Census short form or from a Special Tabulation compiled for the Community Development Department.

• If necessary, the U. S. Census Bureau will suppress data to protect individual privacy in areas whose population falls below a certain threshold. In accordance with this policy, in 1980 Cambridge Highlands expanded to include a portion of Area 9. This measure affected the blocks bounded by Bellis Circle, Walden Street, Garden Street, Field Street, Bay State Road and the Fitchburg Division railroad tracks. In 1990 data from this area was restored to Neighborhood 9.
• Changes to U. S. Census Bureau technology for the 1990 Census required minor boundary adjustments between several neighborhoods. Small portions of blocks shifted between Cambridgeport (Area 5) and Riverside (Area 7), between Mid-Cambridge (Area 6) and Agassiz (Area 8), and between West Cambridge (Area 10) and Strawberry Hill (Area 13).
• In 1980 and 1990 Census Block boundaries did not allow for an accurate compilation of data for residents of Strawberry Hill (Area 13) living in homes east of Holworthy Street, Holworthy Place and Park Avenue and west of the Watertown Branch train tracks. Persons residing in this area were counted as residents of West Cambridge (Area 10). The 2000 Census counts these persons as residents of Strawberry Hill.
• In compiling results for the 2000 Census, the Census Bureau erroneously assigned the residents of Harvard University dormitories located in Harvard Yard and along Harvard Street east of Quincy Square, all of which fall in the Mid-Cambridge neighborhood, to a block located south of Massachusetts Avenue in the Riverside neighborhood. To compensate for this error, all residents of the block located south of Massachusetts Avenue are allocated to Mid-Cambridge for the purpose of calculating neighborhood statistics. The great majority of the persons affected are group quarters residents residing in Harvard University dormitories.
• The single census block surrounded by Huron Avenue, Grove Street, Blanchard Road, Concord Avenue and Fresh Pond Parkway, including Fresh Pond Reservation, falls partially in West Cambridge (Area 10), Cambridge Highlands (Area 12) and Strawberry Hill (Area 13). The Area 10 portion is unpopulated. To accommodate census block boundaries, the Area 12 portion is included in the Strawberry Hill figures for all three years analyzed.