New study reveals the number of graffiti incidents & graffiti removal costs across the UK.

6 figure sums spent on graffiti removal by councils across the UK.

In August & September 2020, Structural Repairs requested data from 381 councils in the UK. By using Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulation requests, the councils were asked to provide the number of graffiti incidents recorded, and the amount spent on graffiti removal, in 2019.

Councils with highest number of graffiti incidents:

Position

Council

# of Incidents

1

Hackney

29,236

2

Leicester

16,144

3

Camden

7,246

4

Greenwich

5,774

5

Oxford

5,221

6

Islington

4,207

7

Enfield

2,915

8

Westminster

2,855

9

Aberdeen City

2,328

10

Haringey

2,150

*full results available here

Councils with highest graffiti removal expenditure:

Position

Council

Removal Cost

1

Glasgow City

 £ 649,914.00

2

Hackney

 £ 300,000.00

3

Hounslow

 £ 204,700.00

4

Greenwich

 £ 188,749.87

5

Doncaster

 £ 167,130.00

6

Wandsworth

 £ 164,158.00

7

Leicester

 £ 160,321.81

8

Lambeth

 £ 150,000.00

9

Oxford

 £ 133,000.00

10

North Lanarkshire

 £ 120,000.00

*full results available here

The response from councils:

Out of 381 councils that were surveyed for information 200 councils provided the number of graffiti incidents, 113 councils provided the amount spent on graffiti removal. 32 councils do not record the number of graffiti incidents and 38 councils do not record the cost to remove graffiti.

115 councils include graffiti as a part of their overall street cleaning service/contract and a result cannot extract either the graffiti incidents or costs, or both.  At the time of publication 107 councils are yet to provide a response.

Get the full findings:

The full findings can be found on our blog post https://structuralrepairs.com/graffiti If you would like to look at the complete results of this research you can download the compiled results here.

We kindly ask that you attribute Structural Repairs, with a link to https://structuralrepairs.com/, if referencing or redistributing the findings of this study in any way.

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