The bar chart displays the changes in the percentage of households owning or renting housing in England and Wales in 20th century.

According to the data shown in the chart, the percentage of the population preferring to live in the owned home possessed a steadily upward trend, which raised the highest at about 70% in 2001, and fell a bit to around 65%. On the contrary, a decline can be found in the percentage of people who choose rental housing, from 75% down to approximately 30%.

Besides, it is obvious that 1971 was a watershed. People tended to live in the owned house over rented accommodation since then. Before that, more households chose to live in rental housing. The greatest gap happened in 1918, with only 20 percent of household living in owned house. This situation inverted after 1971 and more households chose to live in rental housing, with the number accounting for more than twice that of population in rented accommodation between 1991 to 2001.

In a conclusion, the number of people living in rented and owned accommodation had experienced the converse trends in the two regions between 1918 to 2011.