Wakefield council recorded 16.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.5 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 6,934, with the highway the most common spot. Of those, 690 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £318,780 to clear. It issued 31 fixed penalty notices, 5 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 13 prosecutions.