All Fly-Tipping Incidents in York from July 2019 Onwards

From July 2019 onwards, this dataset contains all recorded fly-tipping incidents in the City of York, sourced from the council's customer relationship management tool. It is published by the Government Digital Service and is available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats. The data is a live API link to the council's GIS server, reflecting changes to the master copy.

Use Cases

• Predicting fly-tipping hotspots based on historical incident locations.
• Analyzing temporal trends in illegal waste disposal from July 2019.
• Correlating fly-tipping incidents with other municipal data for policy impact assessment.
• Visualizing unresolved incidents (those with no end date) on a map.

Strengths

• Data is a live API feed, ensuring updates are reflected immediately.
• Covers all incidents from a defined start point (July 2019).
• Available in multiple interoperable formats (GEOJSON, KML, ESRI SHAPE, CSV).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Incidents created in the last 14 days are excluded, creating a short-term data lag.

Provenance

Source

City of York Council's customer relationship management (CRM) tool.

Collection Method

Recorded via council's CRM system for reported incidents.

Time Range

July 2019 onwards (with a 14-day exclusion for recent incidents).

Freshness

Live API link; freshness is dependent on the source system's update frequency.

Geography

City of York, UK.