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Census MCP Server

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Census MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 210 installs a week from npm.

US Census population data by nation, state, and county. Requires a free Census API key.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Installs per day peak 263 · avg 22 · -79% w/w
a month agotoday
210
Installs / week
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This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add census-mcp -- npx -y census-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "census-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "census-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.census-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "census-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "census-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "census-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "census-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "census-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Census MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Census MCP?
Census MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package census-mcp was installed 210 times last week.
Is Census MCP still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Census MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls census-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Census MCP?
The npm package census-mcp was installed 210 times in the last week. Week over week that is -79%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.