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

The column chart illustrates the

proportion

of

households

that owned or rented their

accommodation

in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.

Overall

, the percentage of

households

in rented houses has followed a downward trend over the entire period.

However

, the

proportion

of

accommodation

owners has increased over a long period of time. In 1918, the figure for

households

that owned their houses was roughly 24%,

nonetheless

,

this

figure increased by around 10% in 1939 and stayed roughly the same until 1953. After

which

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, the percentage of

accommodation

owners began to rise and peaked at nearly 70% in 2001.

Whereas

, there was a drop to almost 64% in 2011. Turning towards the other category, in 1918, the

proportion

of people who rented

accommodation

was 76% which was the highest by far. Similar to the

proportion

of

accommodation

owners, the figure for

households

who rented their house levelled out between 1939 and 1953.

Moreover

, there was a decline to just over 30% in 2001, followed by a slight increase to nearly 36% in 2011.