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

A glance at

this

column graph provides reveals the numbers in the percentage of households that owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. It is evident that house number rented was at its peak in 1918, at approximately 78% high and

then

gradually decreased to 1991 at around 32%. Afterwards, the figures keep still at 32%, 2001 and slightly bounced back to 37%, which stopped the failing trend.

On the contrary

, the household ownership rate has a rather stable climb, from roughly 22% in 1918 to a record high of 69% in 2001. Interestingly, house ownership was held flat between 1939 and 1953. The most intriguing part of

this

chart is that the trends of the two indicators move in entirely opposite ways, in which ownership gradually grows

whereas

renting rate consistently declined. Another noticeable fact is that these two reached the same level of 50% to 50% in 1971.