Households with regular use of car, Great Britain

The line graph displays data on the proportion of households in Britain who own a car and regularly use it from 1971 to 2007. Overall, while percentage of people who have one automobile remained steadfast in the duration of the survey, those who own two vehicles climbed up significantly in 2007. Likewise, car owners of three or more units moved upwards minimally, while households without a car considerably declined 36 years later. In 1971, more than two-fifths of British households own a car and used it daily. Although slight fluctuations were noted, it retained its range until the end of the survey. In contrast, people who had two private vehicles started just below 10% and remained four-fold lesser than that of one-car owners until 1979, when the former began to shift upwards. Two decades after the survey started, the proportion of two-car ownership doubled its figure and continued its uphill climb, reaching almost triple of its initial record in 2007. In a similar manner, while a very small proportion use three or more private vehicles daily in the earlier part of the survey, its number slowly increased at intervals and almost doubled three decades later. This however made no significant change in its position as the lowest with a record of just about 6%. Conversely, people who don’t have a car started at almost half of the surveyed groups but afterwards it fell back to the level of one-car users in 1975. It continued its path downhill to about 20% less than its starting point in 1995 and reached a rate which equaled to that of households with two cars by 2003. Four years later, these two groups maintained a small marginal difference and ranged constantly at about a quarter.