The bar chart illustrates the proportion of households living in rented accommodation and owned in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Overall the percentage of households in rented accommodation was significantly higher, but ownership gradually increased and overtook renting by 2011.
in 1918 the percentage of households in owned accommodation was on its lowest point – around 25%, and started gradually increasing Meanwhile the opposite experienced rented accommodations starting from approximately 80%. In 1971 both figures reached to the same point – approximately 50%.
In 1981, the percentage of households in rented accommodations dropped to around 40% and reached it’s lowest point in next 20 years. In the next dates it had small fluctuations and in the end of period reached near 35 percents.
