Census bureau

Census bureau MCP integration

Resolves addresses to census geography, returns ACS and population estimates, sizes local business activity, and finds the right variable to query.

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  • Geocode address

    Lyro converts a street address into latitude and longitude coordinates instantly. Your team maps customer locations for service area validation or shipping verification.

  • Get acs 5-year estimates

    Lyro retrieves 5-year American Community Survey data for any geography. Your team accesses Census demographic and economic insights for customer profiling.

  • Batch geocode addresses with geographies

    Lyro geocodes up to bulk addresses from a file and returns Census geography codes. Your team processes customer address lists for regional compliance or targeting.

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How businesses use Census bureau + Lyro

Each card is one request a support team gets, and the Census bureau actions Lyro runs to close it.

  • Answer a demographic question about a place

    Lyro pulls the American Community Survey estimates for the area in question, reads the data profile that summarises them, and adds the current population estimate so the answer carries a date, not just a number.

    Get ACS 5-Year EstimatesQuery ACS Data ProfileGet Population Estimates

  • Turn a street address into its census geography

    Lyro geocodes the address and returns the tract, block group, and county it falls in, resolves coordinates the other way round, and runs a whole address list through in one pass.

    Geocode Address with GeographyGeocode CoordinatesBatch Geocode Addresses

  • Size the business base in a local market

    Lyro pulls establishment and employment counts for a county or ZIP code and reads the Economic Census behind them, so a territory decision rests on how much activity is actually there.

    Get County Business PatternsQuery ZIP Business PatternsQuery Economic Census Data

  • Find the right variable before pulling a number

    Lyro lists the datasets that exist, reads the variables each one publishes, and checks what a specific variable actually measures, so the figure returned answers the question that was asked.

    List Available DatasetsGet Dataset Variables JSONGet Variable Details

How it works

Get started in 3 steps

Connect once, then just ask. There is no workflow builder to learn and nothing to maintain — Lyro reads the Census bureau actions it has and picks the ones a request needs.

  1. 01

    Connect Census bureau

    Authorize the Census bureau account your team already uses — one consent screen, no API keys, no mapping tables. Lyro can only do what you granted that account, and you can disconnect it at any time.

  2. 02

    Tell your agent what you need

    Describe the job the way you would hand it to a teammate. Lyro maps it to the Census bureau actions that close it and chains as many as the request needs.

  3. 03

    Watch it work

    The agent runs the actions inside the conversation the customer is already in, so nobody copies data between tabs and your team can take over at any point.

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Setup, permissions, and the limits of what Lyro can do inside Census bureau.

  • Both are available and they answer different questions. Get ACS 1-Year Estimates is the more current release; Get ACS 5-Year Estimates pools five years, which is what makes it usable for small geographies the 1-year release does not publish. Query ACS Supplemental Estimates and Query ACS Comparison Profiles sit alongside them for smaller areas and period-over-period reads.

Every action available in Census bureau

All 81 actions your agent can call on Census bureau, straight from the live MCP connection.

  • Geocode address

    Geocode a single address to get latitude/longitude coordinates.

  • Geocode address for census geographies

    Geocode an address and return Census geography identifiers including state, county, tract, block group, and block FIPS codes.

  • Geocode address parts

    Geocode an address using separate components (street, city, state, ZIP) to get latitude/longitude coordinates.

  • Geocode address with geography

    Geocode an address and return both coordinates and Census geography information.

  • Geocode coordinates

    Reverse geocode latitude/longitude coordinates to Census geographic areas.

  • Geocode puerto rico address with geography

    Geocode a Puerto Rico address and return coordinates plus Census geography data.

  • Batch geocode addresses with geographies

    Batch geocode multiple addresses from a CSV file and return Census geography codes.

  • Geocode puerto rico address

    Geocode a Puerto Rico address with urbanization to latitude/longitude coordinates.

  • Get acs 1-year estimates

    Retrieve 1-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for a specified geography.

  • Get acs 5-year estimates

    Retrieve 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates from the U.S.

  • Get community resilience estimates

    Retrieve U.S.

  • Get county business patterns

    Retrieve County Business Patterns (CBP) data for a specified year.

  • Get dataset examples HTML

    Retrieve example queries for a Census dataset in HTML format.

  • Get dataset examples JSON

    Retrieve example API query patterns for a specific Census dataset and vintage.

  • Get dataset examples (XML)

    Retrieve example queries for a Census Bureau dataset in XML format.

  • Get dataset geography HTML

    Retrieve available geographies for a Census dataset in HTML format.

  • Get dataset geography JSON

    Get the list of supported geography levels for a specific Census dataset with their hierarchy and required predicates.

  • Get dataset geography XML

    Retrieve available geographies for a Census Bureau dataset in XML format.

  • Get dataset groups

    Retrieve the list of table groups for a Census dataset and vintage.

  • Get dataset sorts

    List available sort options for a specific Census dataset and vintage.

  • Get dataset tags

    List available tags/keywords for a specific Census dataset and vintage.

  • Get dataset variables JSON

    Retrieve the complete list of available variables for a specific Census dataset.

  • Get decennial census data

    Retrieve Decennial Census data (population, demographics, housing) from the U.S.

  • Get planning database data

    Get Planning Database (PDB) data containing Census tract and block group level data useful for planning.

  • Get population estimates

    Retrieves Population Estimates Program (PEP) data from the US Census Bureau API.

  • Get tigerweb acs generalized boundaries

    Access generalized ACS (American Community Survey) boundary services from TIGERweb for specific survey years (2012-2024).

  • Get tigerweb map service metadata

    Retrieve TIGERweb MapServer service metadata including available layers, capabilities, and spatial reference information.

  • Get timeseries examples HTML

    Retrieve HTML-formatted example queries for a Census Bureau timeseries dataset.

  • Get timeseries examples JSON

    Get example queries for a timeseries dataset in JSON format.

  • Get timeseries examples XML

    Retrieve example queries for a Census Bureau timeseries dataset in XML format.

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