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Frontera Signal Labor Ranges
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Frontera Signal Labor Ranges is a paid API for AI agents from fronterasignal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).
Returns time-series data on construction labor capacity and timelines (e.g. build times) for Hidalgo and Cameron counties, Texas, with ISO-week filtering.
Price / call$0.05
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Use when you need construction labor conditions in the Rio Grande Valley: typical build time for a 2,100 sq ft house, the immigration-enforcement climate and construction-loan trend. Aggregated; no firm-level data.
Output
A JSON object containing an array of weekly labor metric rows, each with a metric name (e.g. build_time_2100sf), a value range (low/high with unit), the ISO week ID, cadence, data source, age in days, staleness flag, and a human-readable value_text. Also includes query echo, series name, total rows returned, publisher attribution, and a disclaimer about staleness thresholds.
Example use cases
Tracking RGV builder backlog trends
“Show me the labor capacity and build time ranges for the Rio Grande Valley from ISO week 2026-W25 through 2026-W30 — I want to see if contractor backlogs are getting longer or shorter.”
Estimating project timeline for new home
“What's the current estimated build time for a 2100 sq ft home in Hidalgo County? Pull the latest labor-ranges data from Frontera Signal so I can plan my construction timeline.”
Monthly construction market briefing
“Get me this month's construction labor data for the Hidalgo and Cameron county area — I need the latest capacity figures and any reported build time ranges for my weekly market report.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://fronterasignal.com/api/v1/series/labor-ranges?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need structured, time-series labor capacity and build timeline data specifically for Hidalgo and Cameron counties in South Texas. It is the right choice for agents monitoring RGV construction labor trends, estimating residential project timelines, or building reports on border-region housing market conditions. It is not a general US construction labor API — its value lies in hyperlocal granularity for the Rio Grande Valley.
Side effects
- Invalid ISO week format for 'from' or 'to' parameters returns a 400 error
- Requesting a future week range returns empty rows or a staleness-flagged response
- No data available for the requested week range returns rows:[] with returned:0
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) results in a 402 response blocking data access
- Extremely old date ranges may return all stale:true rows with large age_days values
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"rows": [
{
"unit": "months",
"as_of": "2026-07",
"stale": false,
"value": {
"low": 9,
"high": 11,
"unit": "months"
},
"metric": "build_time_2100sf",
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"status": "reported",
"cadence": "monthly",
"week_id": "2026-W30",
"age_days": 64,
"backfill": false,
"value_text": "9-11 months",
"value_type": "range"
}
],
"query": {
"to": "2026-W30",
"from": "2026-W30"
},
"title": "Labor and capacity",
"fields": [
"week_id"
],
"series": "labor-ranges",
"cadence": "monthly",
"returned": 3,
"publisher": "Frontera Signal",
"disclaimer": "Every value carries as_of, age_days, cadence and stale (weekly measures go stale after 14 days, monthly measures after …",
"latest_week": "2026-W30",
"schema_version": "2.0"
}
}Tags
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