Public records and analysis
The Cambridge dashboard
A map of Cambridge's zoning, parcel by parcel, with the next public meetings and a neighborhood explorer for housing, permits and redevelopment.
What is open today
- The eight trackersWhat each one follows, how it is measured, and its sources.
- The civic calendarThe City's public meetings, which you can add to your own calendar.
- The petition resource centreThree official routes, with requirements and an exportable packet.
- Sources and methodologyEvery record this site relies on, and what is still missing.
The eight trackers
Each follows one question about Cambridge through the public record. Open one to see its figures, where each came from, and what is still missing.
- Tree, Canopy & Microclimate
What tree cover Cambridge has, what it is losing, why, and how long a replacement takes to do the same work.
41 of 65 measures published
Open the analysis → - Rainfall · Space · Flooding
How much rain falls on a site, how much ground is left to absorb it, and where the rest goes.
18 of 30 measures published
- TRUE Affordability Across Generations
What a household actually has left after housing, utilities, transport, care and the other costs of living here.
8 of 11 measures published
Open the analysis → Loading the neighborhood map…
Compiled by the TOKUMA Foundation from City of Cambridge Open Data (jabj-v7kz, maef-iias, m9gy-vc6p) and American Community Survey 2020–2024 tables C17002, B25070, B25091 and B19001. Estimates, not counts; margins of error are not shown.
- TRUE Multifamily Living Across Generations
Whether a home works for the household living in it: size, privacy, access, stability and the daily needs around it.
26 of 45 measures published
- Voting & Representation
Who voted, where, how the count worked, and what the people elected have done since.
40 of 48 measures published
Open the analysis → - Permits & Development Accountability
What was filed, who filed it, who reviewed it, what was decided, and what actually got built.
15 of 19 measures published
- Civic Process & Complaints Navigator
Which body handles a given issue, what it needs from you, by when, and what happens next.
Ships as the Petition resource centre
- Neighborhood Activity & Project Portfolio
What is happening in a neighborhood this week, what is being worked on, and how it turned out.
Ships as the Civic calendar
