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

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of

households

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that owned or rented their

accommodation

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in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.

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, the percentage of

households

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

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, the

proportion

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of

accommodation

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

households

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that owned their houses was roughly 24%,

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,

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

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, the percentage of

accommodation

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

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

proportion

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of people who rented

accommodation

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

proportion

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of

accommodation

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owners, the figure for

households

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who rented their house levelled out between 1939 and 1953.

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