The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides a comparison between the percentage of people owning and renting

accommodation

in Welles and England from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, the initial decades illustrate that people tended to live in rented

accommodation

;

however

, in the following decades, the

number

of households who lived in owning

accommodation

outnumbered dramatically. As can be seen in 1918, just above 20% of households owned

accommodation

that in following years, the figure experienced an increase and in 1971 the

number

of renting and owning

accommodation

were equal, stood at approximately 60%. Albeit, in 2011 the

number

of owning

accommodation

was twice compared to those renting

accommodation

.

However

, the

number

of renting

accommodation

in 1918 was less than 80%, which saw a stable reduction to 1961 and reached 60%. The downward trend continued to reduce and in 2001 reached the lowest point, amounting to approximately 30% which 40% is lower than owning

accommodation

. In 2011 the trend showed a rise and stood at approximately 35%