The bar chart describes the number of families that are owned and rented in two areas of England areas England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

The bar chart describes the number of families that are owned and rented in two areas England and Wales from 1918 to 2011. It is clear that the number of households in rented accommodation is higheraccommodation higher than homeowners, while an opposite trend was observed over the final 30 years. Looking at the chart in more detail, families renting accommodation accounted for about 80%, three times higher than owning accommodation in 1918. The figure decreased sharply to 50% in 1917 and stayed stable for 14in 14 years between 1939 and 1953. In contrast, the percentage of rented households TOBE + ADJ? ? ? ? more than doubled from about 25% to 50%. After that Subject? ? ? remained unchangedunchange only at 30%on 30% from 1939 to 1953 before going up to equal rented accommodation. On the other hand, in the period from 1918 to 2011, the proportion of families owning a homeowning home which tendeds to rise raised steadily and reached a peakreach peak at about 70% in 2001 before droppingdropped by 5% in 2011. The rate of houses being rented out hit a low about 31%%, followed by a small growthgrow of 5%.