Bradford council recorded 32.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 3.0 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 19,697, most of them on footpaths and bridleways. Of those, 656 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £214,700 to clear. It issued 91 fixed penalty notices, 21 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 3 prosecutions.