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Census County Business Patterns MCP Server

com.olyport/census-cbp
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Census County Business Patterns is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Establishment counts, employment, and payroll by geography and NAICS code from Census CBP

Uptime history 44 hours of history
44 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
547 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 15 min ago.

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

Available tools 3

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

compare
compare_county_industries
Get a breakdown of all industries in a county. Returns business pattern data for all 2-digit NAICS sectors in a specific county. Useful for understanding the economic composition of a community for grant narratives. Args: state: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'TX', 'NY'). county_fips: 3-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '037' for Los Angeles County). year: Data year (default 2021). Available: 2012-2021.
county
get_county_business_patterns
Get business establishment, employment, and payroll data by county. Returns County Business Patterns data from the Census Bureau showing the number of business establishments, employees, and annual payroll for a given geography and optional industry filter. Args: state: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'TX', 'NY'). county_fips: 3-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '037' for Los Angeles). If omitted, returns data for all counties in the state. naics_code: NAICS 2017 industry code to filter by (e.g. '72' for Accommodation/Food, '62' for Healthcare, '23' for Construction). If omitted, returns totals across all industries. year: Data year (default 2021). Available: 2012-2021.
state
get_state_business_summary
Get state-level business pattern summary. Returns aggregate establishment, employment, and payroll data for an entire state, optionally filtered by industry. Useful for state-level economic overviews in grant applications. Args: state: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'TX', 'NY'). naics_code: NAICS 2017 industry code to filter by (e.g. '72' for Accommodation/Food, '62' for Healthcare). Omit for all industries. year: Data year (default 2021). Available: 2012-2021.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/census-cbp/mcp streamable-http answering 557 ms 15 min ago

Census County Business Patterns — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Census County Business Patterns do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_county_industries, get_county_business_patterns, get_state_business_summary. 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 Census County Business Patterns 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 547 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Census County Business Patterns?
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 Census County Business Patterns need an API key?
No. Census County Business Patterns completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Census County Business Patterns?
It answers our handshake in 547 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.