Census County Business Patterns MCP Server

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Census County Business Patterns is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

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

Uptime history 91 days of history

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

548 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Census County Business Patterns every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add census-cbp --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/census-cbp/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "census-cbp": {
      "type": "http",
      "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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.olyport.com/census-cbp/mcp	streamable-http	answering	524 ms	3 min ago

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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 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 548 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 in the form 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 548 ms on average, which is faster than 22% 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.