The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar diagram provides data about the differences between the shares of households that owned and rented housing in England and Wales during a period of time from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, it is evident from the chart that the popularity of the option to rent experienced a downward trend,

while

the opposite was true for the purchase of accommodation.

According to

the graph, the prevalent percentage of people decided to rent in 1918, in fact, the proportion was equal to 78%,

additionally

,

this

choice is observed to have its peak in

this

year.

However

, the spread of decisions to purchase started to increase steadily reaching the top in 1991-2001, when the share fluctuated around 70% and the proportion of households rented accommodation was equal to approximately 30%, respectively.

Nevertheless

, even though there was a slight drop in 2011 in the demand for houses to buy,

this

solution continued to be the superior one with an enormous gap, which constituted 30%.