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BEA Economic Accounts MCP Server

com.olyport/bea
answering

BEA Economic Accounts is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

County GDP, personal income, and employment from the Bureau of Economic Analysis

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
551 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add bea --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/bea/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bea": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/bea/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.bea]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/bea/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bea": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/bea/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bea": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/bea/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

county
get_county_employment
Get total full-time and part-time employment by county from BEA (CAEMP25N table). Returns employment counts for a county or state total. When year is omitted, returns the last 5 available years. GeoFips format: 5-digit county FIPS (e.g. '53067') or state total (e.g. '53000'). Args: county_fips: 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '53067') or state total (e.g. '53000'). year: Specific year to retrieve. Omit for last 5 years.
get_county_gdp
Get GDP by county from the BEA Regional accounts (CAGDP1 table). Returns all-industry GDP for a county or state total. When year is omitted, returns the last 5 available years. GeoFips format: 5-digit county FIPS (e.g. '53067' for Thurston County, WA). For state totals use 2-digit state FIPS + '000' (e.g. '53000' for Washington). Args: county_fips: 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '53067') or state total (e.g. '53000'). year: Specific year to retrieve. Omit for last 5 years.
get_county_personal_income
Get personal income by county from the BEA Regional accounts (CAINC1 table). Returns total personal income for a county or state total. When year is omitted, returns the last 5 available years. GeoFips format: 5-digit county FIPS (e.g. '53067') or state total (e.g. '53000'). Args: county_fips: 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '53067') or state total (e.g. '53000'). year: Specific year to retrieve. Omit for last 5 years.
available
list_available_tables
List all available Regional dataset table names from the BEA API. Returns table name codes and descriptions for use with other BEA tools. Useful for discovering which datasets are available.
metro
get_metro_gdp
Get GDP by metropolitan statistical area from BEA (MAGDP1 table). Returns all-industry GDP for an MSA. When year is omitted, returns the last 5 available years. Args: msa_code: MSA/CBSA code (e.g. '42660' for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue). year: Specific year to retrieve. Omit for last 5 years.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/bea/mcp streamable-http answering 556 ms 9 min ago

BEA Economic Accounts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BEA Economic Accounts do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_county_employment, get_county_gdp, get_county_personal_income, get_metro_gdp, list_available_tables. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is BEA Economic Accounts working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 551 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect BEA Economic Accounts?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does BEA Economic Accounts need an API key?
No. BEA Economic Accounts completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is BEA Economic Accounts?
It answers our handshake in 551 ms on average, which is faster than 19% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.