The bar chart show the percentage of household in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of families who owned and rented a

house

in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, it is noticeable that most

households

chose to rent in 1918,

while

in 2001 more people opted to have their own private accommodation.

According to

the data, the highest percentage of

households

who opted to rent a

house

was in 1918. Having started at about 78%, the percentage of families decreased to only just above 30% in 2001 before slightly increasing to about 38% in 2011.

However

, only in

1971

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the proportion of

households

in both categories showed an equal percentage at 50% for each category. Turning to 2011, most people preferred to have their own

house

rather than rented

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accommodation. Starting at just above 20% in 1918, the proportion of

households

that owned a

house

started to increase and peaked at just below 70% in 2001, which was the highest in that year, before falling marginally to about 65% in 2011.