# U.S. County Business Patterns API

> U.S. County Business Patterns API is a paid API for AI agents from econ.memoryapi.org, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns number of businesses, employees, and payroll data by industry (NAICS code) and state from U.S. Census County Business Patterns.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://econ.memoryapi.org/x402/econ/business
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/econ-memoryapi-org-54f197f7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fGvL3MiM8WkKgU07Jk-dd

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 econ-memoryapi-org-54f197f7
```

Example prompt: How many businesses and employees are in the manufacturing sector (NAICS 31-33) in Michigan, and what's the total annual payroll?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, authoritative data on business counts, employment, and payroll by industry and geography at the U.S. state or county level. Prefer this over general web search when you need precise Census-sourced statistics for economic analysis, market research, or regional industry comparisons.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported NAICS code returns no results or an error
- State or county not found returns empty dataset
- Data may be lagged by 1-2 years as Census CBP data is released annually
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession

## How this service works

U.S. County Business Patterns — number of businesses, employees, and payroll by industry (NAICS) and state.

## Output

Returns structured data including the count of business establishments, number of employees, and annual payroll figures, broken down by NAICS industry code and state or county geography, sourced from the U.S. Census County Business Patterns dataset.

## Example request

```json
{
 "naics": "31-33",
 "state": "MI"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "required": [
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/econ-memoryapi-org-54f197f7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from econ.memoryapi.org](https://www.zero.xyz/host/econ.memoryapi.org/llms.txt)