The bar chart below shows the number of houses built per year in two cities, Derby and Nottingham, between 2000 and 2009

The bar graph compares two cities in terms of the quantities of houses built each year over the period of 10 years, starting from 2000.

Overall

, both cities saw an upward trend in the number of houses built.

Additionally

, at the beginning of the period, more houses were built in Nottingham than in Derby,

while

by the end, the opposite was true. In 2000, the number of newly built

homes

in Derby was around 50.

This

figure rose steadily to about 125

homes

in the next 3 years,

then

remained the same till 2005, before witnessing a dramatic increase and picking at Nottingham city,

however

, followed a rather different pattern. Between 2000 to 2005 the number of new

homes

hovered around 50 before dropping to almost 0 in 2006. A remarkable increase of about 200 was seen in 2007.

This

figure plummeted the next year to almost 0 again before surging to 250 new

homes

.