Census MCP server
online · 100% uptimeQuery U.S. Census Bureau data, variables, and geography via MCP.
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How Census compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 90/100
- higher than 83% of 48,255 servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%
- Response time
- 540 ms
- faster than 27% of 30,031 servers
- GitHub stars
- 2
- more than 75% of 28,688 servers
- Downloads a week
- 360
- more than 84% of 12,191 servers with a package
Release history: 10 versions in the registry since 2026-08-25, latest 2026-11-04, typically one every 6 days.
Install Census in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http census-mcp-server https://census.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Census repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/census-mcp-server Query U.S. Census Bureau data, variables, and geography via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 8 Tools
Public Hosted Server: https://census.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
U.S. Census Bureau data — datasets, variables, and geography — via the Census Data API, TIGERweb, and the Census Geocoder. Discover datasets and variables, resolve place names or addresses to FIPS codes, and query or rank demographic, economic, and housing estimates across geographies from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Census: common questions
- Is Census MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (90/100). Read the Census safety report
- How do I install Census?
- It runs remotely at census.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Census need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 9 settings from the environment.
- Is Census maintained?
- The last commit was 22 days ago (2026-10-13). The latest release is v0.7.2.
- Is Census up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- How does Census compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 90/100 (higher than 83% of 48,255 servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%); response time 540 ms (faster than 27% of 30,031 servers). Full comparison.