St. Helens council recorded 11.5 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, about the same as the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,366, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 6 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £16,058 to clear. It issued no fixed penalty notices and brought no prosecutions.