Census API MCP Server

Item: Census API MCP Server
Rating: 72
Author: M8ven

Enables access to U.S. Census Bureau data including demographics, population, income, and housing statistics. Users can query specific variables, search datasets, and retrieve geographic FIPS codes across various surveys like the American Community Survey and Decennial Census.

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// key findings

⚠️

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 2 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: CENSUS_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// known CVEs in dependencies2 high

Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.0.0GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g

Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.0.0GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w

Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretCENSUS_API_KEY— "": "your-api-key"

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verified: 6/12/2026, 11:19:15 AM

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