About Census Housing & Business Context
Connect a free US Census Data API key for American Community Survey housing profiles and County Business Patterns. ACS results retain published margins of error. CBP returns paid-employee establishment, employment, and payroll context for one exact county and NAICS code, with suppression flags preserved. Neither dataset supplies parcel facts, tenants, rents, vacancies, transactions, or investment rankings.
⚠ Area-level survey estimates are not facts about a parcel, building, household, tenant, or transaction.
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Setup
What Census Housing & Business Context needs before it will answer.
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Request a free Census key
Create a key through the Census Data API key page.
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Add the encrypted key
Save the key in ParcelOps; it is encrypted and not shown to the model.
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Choose an exact area
Use Census codes for housing profiles or a county plus NAICS code for business context.
Connect Census Housing & Business Context to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP clients
Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.
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Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
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Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
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Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
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Get the connector URL
Log in to ParcelOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
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Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
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Start using
Your Census Housing & Business Context connector is ready to use in Claude.