North Yorkshire council recorded 5.0 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2023-24 to 2024-25, 55% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,329, most of them on the highway. Of those, 64 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £192,403 to clear. It issued 55 fixed penalty notices, 13 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.