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

This

bar chart illustrates the proportion of

households

which are owned or rented from 1918 to 2011, in England and Wales.

Overall

, the

rate

of

households

in owned accommodation had an upward trend from 1918 to 2001,

while

the percentage of

households

in rented accommodation had a

decrease

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trend

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almost the whole period. The fraction of rented houses started from above 75% in 1918, which is

also

the highest

rate

of the whole period. After that, figures fell to almost 70% in 1939 and

then

remained stable until 1953. Meanwhile, the percentage of owned houses had a decrease

around

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20% from 1918 to 1961. In the year 1971, the proportion of owned and rented accommodation

equaled

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50%. The

rate

of owned houses

furthermore

wents

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up and peaked at almost 70% in 2001.

Although

, after 2001 the

rate

of owned properties experienced a drop from almost 70% to

near

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63%.

In addition

,from 1971 to 2001 the figure

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rented properties plummeted to above 30% and in 2011 it had an increase of 5%. All in all, the percentage of owned

households

was higher than rented

households

between 1918 and 1961,

while

the rates of rented properties were higher from 1981 to 2011.