Barnsley council recorded 20.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.8 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,404, with council land the most common spot. Of those, 409 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £61,677 to clear. It issued 19 fixed penalty notices, 6 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.