vitrine · corridor · pairwise

1940s ↔ 1950s

Fact families the measure guard certifies comparable for this pair. Everything else renders as the gap it is. Every value links to its placard.

Rooms 1940s 1950s all corridors

A median home — affordability

1940s ↔ 1950s
not comparable for this pair — the hours axis needs a structured price and a verified wage anchor in both rooms — not yet curated for this pair

Homeownership

% of occupied housing units owner-occupied

1940s · Tier A
43.6%
1950s · Tier A
55.0%

Complete plumbing

% of homes with complete plumbing

1940s · Tier A
54.7% of homes had complete plumbing (45.3% lacked)
1950s · Tier A
64.5% of homes had complete plumbing (35.5% lacked)

Television

% of households

1940s · Tier A
~1% of households (1948), negligible before 1947
1950s · Tier A
12.3%

Telephone

% of households

⚠ 1910s–1930s sources counted telephones per 1,000 population, not households — those decades render as gaps rather than a unit splice.
⚠ The 2020s point counts cell phones (92.7%); the landline share is on the placard.
1940s · Tier A
45.1% (1944) → 61.8% (1950) — see the placard
1950s · Tier A
Telephone: 61.8% of households (280.9 per 1,000 population). Automobile: registration data available but not asked in 1950 Census.

Women's unpaid home production

hours per week, prime-age women

⚠ The 2020s source (ATUS) measures all-adult household activities, a concept splice from Ramey's women's series — flagged, not smoothed, so the chart renders it as a gap and the placard carries both figures.
1940s · Tier C
41.9
1950s · Tier C
41.5

Men's unpaid home production

hours per week, prime-age men

1940s · Tier C
7.7
1950s · Tier C
9.0