Sheffield council recorded 20.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.9 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 12,237, with council land the most common spot. Of those, 538 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £83,590 to clear. It issued 129 fixed penalty notices, 31 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 3 prosecutions.