Three quarters of New Zealand households had Internet access at the time of the 2013 national census, the government statistics agency announced Tuesday.

The proportion was up from 34 percent in the previous census in 2006, according to Statistics New Zealand.

The highest rate of home Internet access was in the South Island tourism and ski resort district known as Queenstown-Lakes, at 88 percent.

The lowest was the remote eastern North Island district of Wairoa at 55 percent.

"Around 95 percent of households earning over 100,000 NZ dollars (72,971 US dollars) have access to the Internet, while 45 percent of households earning 20,000 NZ dollars (14,594 US dollars) or less had access," census customer focus manager Gareth Meech said in a statement.

The proportion of households with access to a cellphone had risen by 10 percent between the two censuses to 84 percent.

The statistics on communication and transport also showed that 38 percent of households had access to two motor vehicles, while 16 percent of households with three or more motor vehicles.

"On census day, 50 percent of employed adults drove to work in a private vehicle," Meech said.