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

The bar chart illustrates the number of

households

in per cent which

accommodation

is owned or rented in England and Wales over the period from 1918 to 2011. Looking from an

overall

perspective, the

percentage

of

households

in owned

accommodation

rose over time,

while

the ones of rented housing decreased from 1918 to 2011. There was a balance between owned and rented

accommodation

in 1971. In 1918, almost 80% of all

households

by that time were in owned

accommodation

. By 1939, the

percentage

for them dropped to nearly 70% and maintained till 1953. From 1961 to 2001, there was a significant decline in the

percentage

of users who owned

households

from approximately 60% to 30 %. In the

last

decade of research the data increased to nearly 35%. The

percentage

of rental housing represented almost a mirrored dynamics from owned one, starting from approximately 25% and ending at around 65%.