Band 6+: The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The chart illustrates the proportion of households in rented & owned accommodation over the time frame of 1918 to 2011 in Wales & England.

Overall, there is an increase in own the proportion of owned accommodation, whereas a decreasing trend is noticeable in the proportion of households that have rented accommodation facility.

In 1918, 78% of the households were living in a rented home & only 28% of them had owned housing facility. Over the years, the trend of owning a home has gone up to around 68% in 2011. The present percentage of owned housing increased steadily starting from 1918 to 2001 which followed by a drop of 6% to in 2014 to 63% in 2011 from 69% in 2002.

The ratio of families in rented facility was very high in 1918 i.e. 77%. The ratio decreased continuously from 1918 to 2001 with a marginal increase in 2011 to 37% from 32% in 2001. It is also worth noticing that the ratio of owned & rented accommodation facility of a households was 50:50 in 1971.