The pie charts illustrate the proportion of both owned and rented properties in the UK from 1991 to 2007. The unit is measured in percent.
Overall, it is evident that the total number of houses witnessed a remarkable increase over 16 years. Moreover, most categories underwent a downward trend, except for home owner, which had a reverse trend. Notably, the figure for housing owned consistently remained the prominent.
Between 1991 and 2007, the percentage of housing owned saw an upward trend while the proportion of private renting remained stable. In detail, there was a significant increase of 10 percentage points, standing at 70% in the data for home owner, occupied the largest part in the total of market shares. In addition, private renting witnessed a plateau at 11%.
Conversely, the proportion of social renting and social housing experienced a downward trend. Notably, the percentage of social renting declined sharply by 6%, approximately 17%. Moreover, there was a dramatical decrease in the figure for social housing from 6% to 2%.