Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) MCP Server

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Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Ziplore: US ZIP to county, FIPS, time zone, Census demographics; radius and city ZIPs. Free, no key.

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

Uptime history 17 days of history

17 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

203 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

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.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add zip-data-api --transport http https://ziplore.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zip-data-api": {
      "url": "https://ziplore.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.zip-data-api]
url = "https://ziplore.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zip-data-api": {
      "url": "https://ziplore.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zip-data-api": {
      "url": "https://ziplore.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/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.

zip

zip_distance

Great-circle distance in miles and km between two US ZIP codes.

zip_lookup

City, state, county and FIPS, coordinates, time zone with UTC offset, and Census demographics (population, income, home value, rent) for up to 10 US ZIP codes. Accepts ZIP+4, addresses and ZIPs missing a leading zero.

city

city_zips

All ZIP codes of a US city, largest population first.

nearest

nearest_zip

Reverse geocode a latitude/longitude to the nearest US ZIP code(s), with distance.

zips

zips_in_radius

Every US ZIP within N miles (max 25) of a ZIP or a lat/lon point, closest first, with distance in miles.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ziplore.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	280 ms	11 min ago

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Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: city_zips, nearest_zip, zip_distance, zip_lookup, zips_in_radius. 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 Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) 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 203 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) 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 Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius)?

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 Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) need an API key?

No. Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius) 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 Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius)?

It answers our handshake in 203 ms on average, which is faster than 62% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.