There were 90 dwellings in Foxton in 1890, although only 67 were occupied, as shown in the ‘Ratio of People per Dwelling 1880 – 2012’ table. "During the first two decades of the 20th century, the statistics suggest that despite an increasing population the house numbers continued to fall", as the number of dwellings, from 1890 to 1920, declined by 15 even though the population rose by 64. Some reasons for this contradiction are that "families were larger as infant mortality began to reduce". Also, small traditional and "insubstantial agricultural workers dwellings were replaced with larger cottages". Another reason is that "financial insecurity caused by World War I caused overcrowding in some existing dwellings".