# Citiview Business Counts by Industry

> Citiview Business Counts by Industry is a paid API for AI agents from agents.citiviewgroup.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Returns the number of establishments, employees, annual payroll, average pay, and businesses per 10,000 residents for a given industry within a US county, state, or ZIP code.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agents.citiviewgroup.com/v1/business/counts?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/citiview-business-counts-by-industry-002ed097
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_YQho3QYuC9z_El5pHk0zN

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability citiview-business-counts-by-industry-002ed097
```

Example prompt: How many pizza restaurants are there in Cook County, Illinois — give me the establishment count, total employees, and businesses per 10,000 residents so I can gauge market saturation.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need Census-quality establishment, employment, and payroll counts for a specific industry in a US county, ZIP, or state. Ideal for market sizing, competitive density analysis, and site selection research. Prefer over general web search when you need structured numeric data rather than qualitative business listings. Better than business directory APIs when aggregate counts and payroll statistics (not individual listings) are the goal.

## Known failure modes

- Industry keyword not recognized or too vague — returns empty or ambiguous results
- ZIP code not found or invalid — returns error or null data
- Geography too small with suppressed Census data — may return null counts to protect business privacy
- NAICS code not valid or not present in dataset — no results returned
- State-level query without specifying level=state may default to a narrower geography

## How this service works

How many businesses of a kind are in a US county, state or ZIP: establishments, employees, annual payroll and average pay by industry (keyword or NAICS code), plus businesses per 10,000 residents for market sizing and competition checks.

## Output

Returns a structured object containing the number of establishments, number of employees, total annual payroll, average pay per employee, and businesses per 10,000 residents for the specified industry and geography. The industry may be matched by keyword or NAICS code, and results are scoped to a ZIP code, county, or entire state.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "zip": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "5-digit ZIP instead"
      },
      "near": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "US city, county or address"
      },
      "level": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "state for statewide"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "industry": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Keyword or NAICS code, e.g. dentists or 722511"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/citiview-business-counts-by-industry-002ed097/health.json
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