Ashford council recorded 9.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 12% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,454, most of them on the highway. Of those, 9 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £1,539 to clear. It issued 14 fixed penalty notices, 1 of them a littering fixed penalty notice issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.