The bar chart show the percentage of household in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 2011

The bar chart provides information about the changing proportion of families

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who owned and rented places in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, it is noticeable that

people

who chose to rent a house were high in 1918 and less significant in 2001.

However

, only a small number of

people

had a private place in 1918, but a massive number in 2001.

According to

the bar chart data, the vast majority of households that lived in England and Wales preferred to rent rather than to

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in their own houses. Having started at just below 80%, the figure of the households who opted to live in rented accommodation slowly decreased to 40%, before hitting the low of 30% in 2001, two times lower than

people

who rented in 1961.

However

, only in 1971, the percentages of

people

who chose to rent and own the accommodation were equal, at 50% for each category. Turning to 2011, it showed that predominantly families who lived in both countries chose to own their private places. Starting at only just above 20%, the percentage of households grew marginally and reached just below 70% in the year 2001, before decreasing slightly to about 65% in 2011.