US Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. Established in 1902 and part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Bureau conducts the constitutionally mandated Decennial Census every ten years and dozens of ongoing surveys including the American Community Survey, Economic Census, Population Estimates, Current Population Survey, and Survey of Income and Program Participation. The Census Bureau exposes its statistics through the Census Data API (over 1,700 datasets), the Microdata API for PUMS tabulation, the TIGERweb geospatial REST services, and the Geocoding Services API — all free, requiring only a free API key for the data endpoints and released into the public domain under CC0.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles US Census Bureau the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 19 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — US Census Bureau scores 47.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 52/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile US Census Bureau
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for US Census Bureau. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 19
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
US Census Bureau 2010 API
The 2010 API from US Census Bureau — 1 operation(s) for 2010.
US Census Bureau 2020 API
The 2020 API from US Census Bureau — 1 operation(s) for 2020.
US Census Bureau ACS API
American Community Survey datasets (1-Year, Supplemental, 5-Year)
US Census Bureau ACS PUMS API
ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (person and household)
US Census Bureau Batch API
Bulk geocoding (up to 10,000 records)
US Census Bureau Catalog API
Service directory
US Census Bureau CPS API
Current Population Survey basic monthly and supplements
US Census Bureau Current API
Current vintage TIGERweb services
US Census Bureau Decennial API
Decennial Census of Population and Housing
US Census Bureau Discovery API
Dataset discovery via the DCAT-compliant catalog
US Census Bureau Economic API
Economic Census, ABS, CBP, NES
US Census Bureau Geographies API
Address to coordinates plus Census geographies
US Census Bureau Locations API
Address to coordinates
US Census Bureau Metadata API
Per-dataset variables, groups, geographies, and examples
US Census Bureau PEP API
Population Estimates Program
US Census Bureau Popclock API
The Popclock API from US Census Bureau — 2 operation(s) for popclock.
US Census Bureau Pulse API
Household Pulse Survey near-real-time experimental data
US Census Bureau SIPP API
Survey of Income and Program Participation panels
US Census Bureau Timeseries API
The Timeseries API from US Census Bureau — 7 operation(s) for timeseries.
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Open Collections 7
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Business Dynamics Statistics API
OPEN COLLECTIONCensus Data API
OPEN COLLECTIONCensus Geocoding Services API
OPEN COLLECTIONInternational Trade API
OPEN COLLECTIONCensus Microdata API
OPEN COLLECTIONPopulation Clock API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIGERweb REST Services
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Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Us Census Bureau Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFeatures 24
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Us Census Bureau Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
US Census Bureau API Rules
SPECTRALUS Census Bureau API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
CensusDataRow
JSON SCHEMACensusDatasetMetadata
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Census Data Row Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 4
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Census Acs5 Get Example
EXAMPLECensus Pums Tabulate Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for US Census Bureau — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 10
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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