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

The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of

households

owning and renting

accommodation

in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, the percentage of

households

in owned

accommodation

increased through the period with a

slightly

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decrease

at the end

while

the statistic of

households

in rented

accommodation

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

To begin

with, the proportion of

households

renting

accommodation

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

Then

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

Finally

, it rose

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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

accommodation

in 1971 and surpassed since

then

.

However

, the statistic of

households

in owned dwellings decreased to about 63% in 2011.