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

The bar graph illustrates the number of owned and rented

accommodation

by

households

in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, the proportion of

households

owning

accommodation

experienced an upward trend,

while

the opposite trend was true for the equivalent number of those renting.

Moreover

, rented

accommodation

was the most popular option for

households

in England and Wales during the first fifty-three years, after that owned ones surpassed its position until the end of the period.

Households

in rented

accommodation

accounted for over 75% in 1918, which was four times higher than the number of

households

owning

accommodation

. It

then

decreased to under 70% in 1939 and

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off until the year

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1953, after which

this

figure saw a rapid fall to 50% in 1971.

In contrast

, the corresponding percentage of those owning

accommodation

increased from about 22% to nearly 31% between 1918 to 1939. After remaining the same during the next

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,

this

figure reached the same level as its

households

in rented

accommodation

counterparts in 1971.

While

the proportion of

households

having their own

accommodation

witnessed a remarkable growth from 1981 to 2001 from 60% to roughly 70%, the equivalent for those who rented

accommodation

declined by nearly 10% in the same period. The former figure

then

dropped to under 65%,

whereas

the latter increased to over 35% in 2011.