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Connect Us Census Income Median Income Poverty Ec to your AI

Set it up once and it works in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and any other client you love. It all runs safely in the background, so you can relax and focus on what really matters. Pull real-time economic indicators directly into your AI agent.

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Curated set · 4 capabilities

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4 capabilities in this set.

Part of 4 available through U.S. Census Bureau.

  1. 01

    Get education by state

    This capability retrieves educational attainment data for all states. It specifically pulls the percentage of the population with a bachelor's degree or higher.

  2. 02

    Get income by county

    This capability provides local economic snapshots for any county within a state. It returns median household income and poverty rates to help you understand regional economic disparities.

  3. 03

    Get income by state

    This capability pulls median household income and poverty rates for every state. It is the fastest way to get high-level economic indicators for state-wide comparisons.

  4. 04

    Get business patterns

    This capability accesses County Business Patterns data. It provides counts for business establishments, total employees, and payroll for specific counties.

Real work

What teams actually run

01

Market Entry Research

Ask your agent to find counties with high median incomes and specific business concentrations before expanding a business.

02

Demographic Profiling

Use the education capability to identify states with high concentrations of bachelor's degree holders.

03

Regional Economic Comparison

Compare poverty rates between different counties in the same state to identify economic gaps.

04

Labor Market Analysis

Pull employee counts and payroll data for specific counties to understand local workforce capacity.

Automate a task

Put U.S. Census Bureau to work on one thing.

Step-by-step automations your AI runs through this Connector: the workflow, the prompts to start with, and the exact capabilities behind each move.

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U.S. Census Bureau works with the most popular AI clients.

These are the most popular clients, each with a step-by-step guide: one link, set up once, with governance and visibility built in. And because everything runs on the MCP standard, the same connection also works in any other compatible client — nothing to rebuild.

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Building your own app? The connector is yours to use.

You don't need a client to put U.S. Census Bureau to work: the same hosted connection plugs into your own applications and agent code, with the same governance on every request. Build with it, chat with it — one connection for both.

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842ms average. Fast in production.

U.S. Census Bureau is checked daily against the live service.

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Connect your client

One URL. Every client.

Activate the Connector, copy your link, and paste it into the client you already use. 4 capabilities arrive ready to run.

Preview access · not provider authentication

The vk_preview_* token belongs to Vinkius preview infrastructure. It lets Claude discover and display the capabilities of U.S. Census Bureau, so you can see the experience inside your AI.

It does not authenticate your account with U.S. Census Bureau. Actions requiring credentials or live account data may not run until you activate the Connector and authorize the service.

U.S. Census Bureau Connector

You're all set. Choose your MCP client and follow the setup instructions.

Connector linkhttps://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_ddYriCNOxbKIObL2IrwutjhR479HTSZeFd3m1qm4/mcp

Claude Desktop

Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — U.S. Census Bureau capabilities are ready to use.
Configuration · claude_desktop_config.jsonCopy
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  "mcpServers": {
    "us-census-income-median-income-poverty-economy-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_ddYriCNOxbKIObL2IrwutjhR479HTSZeFd3m1qm4/mcp"
    }
  }
}
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Step-by-step instructions for each client are in the guide. How to connect

Guided setup for Claude? Set up U.S. Census Bureau in Claude and other AIs

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Who it's for

Built for the work U.S. Census Bureau owners hand off.

This MCP is for professionals who need to ground their economic or demographic research in official federal data.

  • 01

    Real Estate Analysts

    They ask the agent to find median incomes in specific counties to evaluate market potential.

  • 02

    Business Site Selectors

    They use the capability to check business density and local payroll in target areas.

  • 03

    Economic Researchers

    They hand off the task of gathering state-wide poverty and education data to their agent.

FAQ

Questions U.S. Census Bureau owners ask.

  • 01

    Do I need a Census Bureau API key?

    Yes. You will need to provide a free API key from the Census Bureau to use this MCP.

  • 02

    Which AI clients can use this MCP?

    You can use this with any MCP-compatible client, including Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

  • 03

    Can I get data for specific counties?

    Yes. The get_income_by_county capability allows you to drill down into local economies within a state.

  • 04

    What kind of business data is available?

    You can access County Business Patterns, which includes data on establishments, employee counts, and payroll.

  • 05

    Is the data real-time?

    The MCP pulls data directly from the Census Bureau datasets provided through their API.

  • 06

    What is County Business Patterns (CBP)?

    CBP is an annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. This server uses it to return total business establishments, employees, and annual payroll by county.

  • 07

    Does income include taxes?

    Median household income reported by the Census represents pre-tax (gross) income from all sources.

  • 08

    Can it separate individual vs household income?

    The primary metrics fetched here are Household metrics as they give the highest fidelity snapshot of local living conditions.

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