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Census (ACS by ZIP) for Claude Desktop

io.github.mcpwright/census-mcp

U.S. Census (ACS) data by ZIP: income, demographics, housing, education, from a local store.

client:Claude Desktop transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Census (ACS by ZIP) in Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "census-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-census"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CENSUS_API_KEY": "<CENSUS_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens this file. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

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