"Figure 4: Housing market activity in small areas continues to fall","" "Percentage of Lower-layer Super Output Areas in which the number of property transactions increased, decreased or remained the same since the previous year, England and Wales, years ending June 1997 to year ending June 2019","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","%" "","" "","Percentage that decreased","Percetange that saw no change","Percentage that increased" "1997","22.3","5.1","72.7" "1998","45.8","5.5","48.7" "1999","48.3","5.6","46.2" "2000","30.8","4.7","64.6" "2001","59.6","4.5","36.0" "2002","28.3","4.1","67.6" "2003","54.5","4.2","41.3" "2004","42.7","4.4","52.8" "2005","75.6","3.3","21.1" "2006","31.9","4.3","63.7" "2007","32.1","4.0","63.9" "2008","80.3","2.8","16.9" "2009","94.3","1.4","4.4" "2010","21.4","5.0","73.6" "2011","52.8","6.5","40.8" "2012","41.0","6.7","52.3" "2013","47.3","6.4","46.3" "2014","21.7","4.7","73.6" "2015","47.5","5.5","47.1" "2016","39.8","5.5","54.8" "2017","57.7","5.1","37.2" "2018","49.1","5.6","45.3" "2019","54.2","5.9","39.9"