# Economic Location Compare

> Economic Location Compare is a paid API for AI agents from agent-vending-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Compare multiple U.S. counties side-by-side across jobs, wages, GDP, income, employer activity, and growth metrics using official government statistics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent-vending-production.up.railway.app/v1/economic-location-compare?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/economic-location-compare-c63e2cc6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__4QJmTpiz8h5zVZfFiin_

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 economic-location-compare-c63e2cc6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Compare Travis County TX, Maricopa County AZ, and Wake County NC on unemployment rate, average annual pay, real GDP per capita, and 5-year job growth so I can see which has the strongest economy right now.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to directly compare two or more U.S. counties across economic and labor market indicators using consistent, official government data. Prefer this over the single-county Local Economy Intelligence endpoint when your task is explicitly comparative or competitive benchmarking. Choose this over general demographic comparison tools when the focus is economic metrics like GDP, wages, employment, and business activity rather than population or housing.

## Known failure modes

- Unrecognized county name or invalid FIPS code returns an error
- Metrics unavailable for very small or data-suppressed counties
- Growth metrics may be missing if historical data is insufficient
- Requesting more than 30 metrics triggers a validation error
- Non-U.S. geographies are not supported

## How this service works

Pay-per-call machine utilities for autonomous agents.

## Output

A structured side-by-side comparison table of the requested counties showing values for each requested metric (e.g. unemployment rate, average annual pay, real GDP, employer establishments, growth rates), sourced from official BLS, BEA, and Census data, enabling direct apples-to-apples benchmarking across locations.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "metrics": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "enum": [
     "labor_force",
     "employed_people",
     "unemployed_people",
     "unemployment_rate",
     "qcew_employment",
     "qcew_establishments",
     "average_weekly_wage",
     "average_annual_pay",
     "total_annual_wages",
     "wage_premium_vs_us",
     "nominal_gdp",
     "real_gdp",
     "nominal_gdp_per_capita",
     "real_gdp_per_capita",
     "personal_income",
     "per_capita_personal_income",
     "employer_establishments",
     "cbp_employment",
     "annual_payroll",
     "employer_establishments_per_1000_residents",
     "goods_producing_share_private",
     "private_share_of_covered_jobs",
     "labor_force_growth_1y",
     "labor_force_growth_5y",
     "employed_people_growth_1y",
     "employed_people_growth_5y",
     "qcew_employment_growth_1y",
     "qcew_employment_growth_3y",
     "qcew_employment_growth_5y",
     "qcew_establishments_growth_1y",
     "qcew_establishments_growth_3y",
     "qcew_establishments_growth_5y",
     "average_annual_pay_growth_1y",
     "average_annual_pay_growth_3y",
     "average_annual_pay_growth_5y",
     "total_annual_wages_growth_1y",
     "total_annual_wages_growth_3y",
     "total_annual_wages_growth_5y",
     "real_gdp_growth_1y",
     "real_gdp_growth_5y",
     "nominal_gdp_growth_1y",
     "nominal_gdp_growth_5y",
     "personal_income_growth_1y",
     "personal_income_growth_5y",
     "per_capita_personal_income_growth_1y",
     "per_capita_personal_income_growth_5y",
     "employer_establishments_growth_1y",
     "employer_establishments_growth_5y",
     "cbp_employment_growth_1y",
     "cbp_employment_growth_5y",
     "annual_payroll_growth_1y",
     "annual_payroll_growth_5y",
     "employment_growth_1y",
     "employment_growth_3y",
     "employment_growth_5y",
     "job_growth_5y",
     "employer_establishments_per_1000",
     "real_gdp_growth",
     "gdp_per_capita_nominal",
     "income_growth_5y",
     "establishment_growth_5y"
    ],
    "type": "string"
   },
   "maxItems": 30,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "locations": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "oneOf": [
     {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "\"County Name, ST\" (e.g. \"Ventura County, CA\") or 5-digit county FIPS"
     },
     {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
       "fips": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "5-digit county FIPS (or 2-digit state FIPS)"
       },
       "name": {
… (truncated)
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "status": "OK",
  "metrics": {
   "average_annual_pay": {
    "unit": "USD per year (nominal)",
    "status": "OK",
    "locations": [
     {
      "fips": "06111",
      "value": 67760,
      "percentile": 92.7
     }
    ],
    "comparison": {
     "lowest": {
      "fips": "06111"
     },
     "highest": {
      "fips": "06073"
     },
     "order_by_value_desc": [
      "06073",
      "06059",
      "06111"
     ]
    },
    "reference_period": "2023"
   }
  },
  "product": "economic_location_compare",
  "vintage_mode": "aligned_2023"
 }
}
```

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