Municipal · Massachusetts

City of Cambridge

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located 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.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 166448
FIPS state: 25
FIPS county: 017
FIPS place: 11000
Census record name: CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Mailing address: 795 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, CAMBRIDGE 02139