Southampton council recorded 43.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 4.0 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 12,208, most of them on council land. Of those, 214 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £74,900 to clear. It issued 38 fixed penalty notices, 11 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.