The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.

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households

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owning and renting

accommodation

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in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

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, the percentage of

households

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in owned

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increased through the period with a

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decrease

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while

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the statistic of

households

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in rented

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declined in the given period without a little rise in the final year.

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with, the proportion of

households

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renting

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decreased from around 77% in 1918 to lower than 70% in 1939 followed by a 14-year plateau.

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, the figure of it declined dramatically from almost 70% in 1953 to slightly bigger than 30% in 2001.

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around 5% to likely 36% in 2011. The percentage of people who lived in their own houses or apartments increased significantly from about 22% in 1918 to almost 70% in 2001. The figure reached

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the same level as living in rented

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in 1971 and surpassed since

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.

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, the statistic of

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in owned dwellings decreased to about 63% in 2011.