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US Census County Business Patterns – State-Level Business Statistics
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US Census County Business Patterns – State-Level Business Statistics is a paid API for AI agents from api.companyrecords-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).
Returns US Census Bureau County Business Patterns data (establishments, employees, payroll) for a given state FIPS code and optional NAICS industry code
Price / call$0.002
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How this service works
Pay-per-call company registry, government, legal and B2B data tools for AI agents, from official registers and public sources. Payment: x402, USDC on Base, Solana, Arc, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, World Chain, Optimism, Avalanche, Celo or Stellar, or RLUSD/XRP on the XRP Ledger. No signup, no API key; a failed call is not charged.
Output
A JSON object containing the state name, reference year, NAICS code (if specified), total number of establishments, paid employee count (as of March 12 payroll week), first-quarter payroll in USD, annual payroll in USD, an employee noise flag (G=low, H=medium, J=high Census noise infusion), the source Census file URL, and the timestamp when the data was last fetched.
Example use cases
State retail industry workforce sizing
“How many paid employees and establishments are in the retail trade sector (NAICS 44) in Texas? Use the latest Census business patterns data.”
Comparing professional services payroll across states
“Get me the annual payroll and employee count for professional services (NAICS 54) in New York state from the US Census business data — I'm building a compensation benchmarking report.”
Total business activity overview for a state
“Give me a high-level snapshot of all businesses in Florida — total number of establishments, employees, and both quarterly and annual payroll figures from the Census Bureau.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.companyrecords-api.workers.dev/api/b2b/census-business-builder?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, official US government statistics on business counts, employment, and payroll aggregated at the state level by industry. It is ideal for market sizing, economic research, competitive landscape analysis, and labor market benchmarking where NAICS-level granularity and Census-grade accuracy are required. Prefer this over commercial business databases when you need aggregate counts (not individual company records) and want data directly sourced from the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns program.
Side effects
- Invalid or non-existent state FIPS code returns an error
- NAICS code outside 2–6 digits or not matching a valid code may return empty or error
- Data may lag up to a year since it reflects the latest published Census year
- Noise infusion flags (H or J) indicate lower precision for small-population industries
- Network or Workers.dev availability issues causing 5xx errors
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"name": "California",
"note": "employeesNoiseFlag: Census noise-infusion level (G low, H medium, J high); counts are for paid employees in the week of March 12.",
"year": 2023,
"naics": null,
"state": "06",
"source": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23st.zip",
"checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:37:40.466Z",
"employees": 16405436,
"q1PayrollUsd": 359843348000,
"establishments": 1029689,
"annualPayrollUsd": 1429217482000,
"employeesNoiseFlag": "G"
}
}Tags
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