CDC PLACES Health Data MCP Server

com.olyport/cdc-places

answering

CDC PLACES Health Data is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

County and tract-level health outcomes, behaviors, and preventive services from CDC PLACES

Uptime history 40 hours of history

40 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

546 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add cdc-places --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/cdc-places/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cdc-places": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/cdc-places/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cdc-places]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/cdc-places/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cdc-places": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/cdc-places/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cdc-places": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/cdc-places/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.

compare

compare_counties

Compare specific CDC PLACES measures across multiple counties. Returns a side-by-side comparison of selected health measures for the given counties. Useful for benchmarking one county against peers. Args: fips_list: List of 5-digit county FIPS codes (e.g. ['53033', '53053', '06037']). Maximum 10 counties per request. measures: List of PLACES measure IDs to compare (e.g. ['DIABETES', 'OBESITY']). Maximum 10 measures per request.

county

get_county_measures

Get all CDC PLACES health measures for a county. Returns up to 36 measures including health outcomes (diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc.), health behaviors (smoking, binge drinking), preventive services (checkups, screenings), and health status indicators. Args: county_fips: 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '53033' for King County, WA). Must be a string, not an integer. year: Optional release year to filter by. Omit for the most recent data.

measure

get_measure_by_state

Get one CDC PLACES measure for all counties in a state. Useful for comparing a specific health metric (e.g. DIABETES, OBESITY) across all counties within a state. Returns the most recent data year. Args: state_abbr: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'CA'). measure_id: PLACES measure ID (e.g. 'DIABETES', 'OBESITY', 'BPHIGH'). Use search_measures to find valid IDs.

measures

search_measures

Search available CDC PLACES measures by name or category. Returns matching measure IDs, names, and categories. Use this to find the correct measure_id for other tools. Categories: Health Outcomes, Health Behaviors, Prevention, Health Status. Args: keyword: Search term (e.g. 'diabetes', 'smoking', 'prevention', 'heart').

tract

get_tract_measures

Get all CDC PLACES health measures for a census tract. Returns tract-level estimates for health outcomes, behaviors, preventive services, and health status indicators. Tract-level data uses small area estimation and may have wider confidence intervals than county data. Args: tract_fips: 11-digit census tract FIPS code (e.g. '53033005300'). Must be a string, not an integer. year: Optional release year to filter by. Omit for the most recent data.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.olyport.com/cdc-places/mcp	streamable-http	answering	541 ms	2 min ago

CDC PLACES Health Data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CDC PLACES Health Data do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_counties, get_county_measures, get_measure_by_state, get_tract_measures, search_measures. 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 CDC PLACES Health Data working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 546 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect CDC PLACES Health Data?

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 CDC PLACES Health Data need an API key?

No. CDC PLACES Health Data 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 CDC PLACES Health Data?

It answers our handshake in 546 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.