Census (ACS by ZIP)

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by mcpwright · Python

U.S. Census (ACS) data by ZIP: income, demographics, housing, education, from a local store.

U.S. Census ACS data by ZIP code including income, demographics and education.

Install

Configuration

Environment variables

CENSUS_API_KEYrequired

Free Census API key (get one at https://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html). Required for the one-time bulk download of the ACS dataset.

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claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "census-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-census"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CENSUS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}