Crap Towns / Oxford / Fly-tipping
How bad is fly-tipping in Oxford? Oxford council recorded 27.5 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.5 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,181, most of them on the highway. It issued 14 fixed penalty notices, 5 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
Over time Year Incidents 2012-13 1,039 2013-14 1,293 2014-15 1,589 2015-16 1,901 2016-17 1,749 2017-18 1,405 2018-19 1,653 2019-20 1,653 2020-21 2,708 2021-22 3,197 2022-23 3,235 2023-24 4,959 2024-25 5,181
Where it was dumped, 2024-25 Where Incidents The highway 4,985 Back alleys 167 Council land 15 Footpaths and bridleways 9 Rivers, streams and their banks 5 Commercial and industrial land 0 Farmland 0 Not recorded 0 Private and residential land 0 Railway land 0
What was dumped, 2024-25 What Incidents Other household rubbish 3,674 Black bags from homes 871 Other electrical 139 Garden waste 137 White goods 134 Building, demolition and excavation waste 54 Chemical drums, oil and fuel 37 Vehicle parts 33 Tyres 29 Other business waste 27 Animal carcasses 22 Black bags from businesses 19 Clinical waste 5 Asbestos 0 Not recorded 0
How big, 2024-25 Size Incidents A single black bag 41 A single item 574 A car boot or less 1,942 A small van load 2,593 A transit van load 31 A tipper lorry load 0 Significant or multiple loads 0
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