The given chart illustrates the percentage of households using their cars in Great Britain between 1971 and 2007.
Overview, while there were increases in the proportion of Great Britain’s families using two or more cars, the figure for no car decreased sharply. Notably, households which had no car had the highest proportion of usage in 1971 before being surpassed by the figure for one car from 1975 onwards.
Regarding families which used a car and no car, in 1971, the percentage of households having no car was leading, at about 48%, compared to the figure for one car, at about 44%. From 1975 to 1999, a contrast trend was seen in the proportion of families using a car and no car. To be more precise, the percentage of families having no car declined significantly to around 28%, whereas the figure for one car hovered at around 45%. In 2007, while Great Britain’s families which had no car continued to decrease before being surpassed by the figure for two cars, the percentage of households using a car stood at about 45%.
In terms of households which used two cars and three or more cars, at the beginning of the period, around 8% of families in Great Britain used two cars, which doubled the figure for three or more cars, at around 2%, after which it rose dramatically to about 25% in 1999 before it surpassed the figure for no car in 2007. In 1975, the proportion of families using three or more cars remained unchanged at about 2% before increasing gradually to around 7% in the final year.