# US Location Profile — Economy, Labor & Weather (`businessquik/location-profile`) Actor

One address or coordinate in, one complete location record out: county, demographics (Census ACS), unemployment (BLS), economic context (FRED), forecast and active weather alerts (NWS). Built for agents and analysts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/businessquik/location-profile.md
- **Developed by:** [Carlos Garcia](https://apify.com/businessquik) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $80.00 / 1,000 location profileds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## US Location Profile

One address or coordinate in — one complete, structured location record out. This Actor does the tedious work of joining four official US government sources whose geographies don't naturally line up:

- **Census geocoder** → resolves your address/coords to county FIPS (the join key)
- **Census ACS** → population, median age, median household income, home values, education
- **BLS LAUS** → county unemployment rate, latest month + year-ago comparison
- **FRED** → state-level economic context
- **National Weather Service** → 4-period forecast + active weather alerts

Each API alone is trivial. Reconciling their geography codes, formats, and quirks is the part nobody wants to write — an AI agent doing market research currently makes ~11 calls to answer "what is this place like?" This is one call.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `locations` | Street addresses and/or `"lat,lon"` pairs — one profile per entry |
| `censusApiKey` | Optional, free & instant — without it the demographics section is skipped |
| `fredApiKey` | Optional, free — adds state economic context |
| `blsApiKey` | Optional — raises rate limits for heavy use |
| `includeWeather` | Default true |

The Actor degrades gracefully: sections you don't have keys for come back as `{"skipped": "<reason + where to get a free key>"}` — the record shape is always stable.

### Output

```json
{
  "query": "90 W Broad St, Columbus, OH 43215",
  "status": "OK",
  "location": { "county_name": "Franklin County", "state_fips": "39", "county_fips": "049", "lat": 39.96, "lon": -83.00 },
  "demographics": { "population": 1321820, "median_household_income": 76354, "median_age": 34.2, "...": "..." },
  "labor": { "unemployment_rate_pct": 3.4, "period": "2026-June", "year_ago_rate_pct": 4.6 },
  "state_economy": { "state_unemployment_pct": 4.1, "as_of": "2026-06-01" },
  "weather": { "forecast": [ ... ], "active_alerts": [] }
}
```

### Who this is for

- **Site selection & expansion analysts** — screen candidate locations in batches
- **Real estate underwriters** — market context per property, programmatically
- **Risk & insurance modellers** — active alerts + local economics in one record
- **AI agents** (via MCP) — the "describe this location" tool

### Notes

- US locations only (the underlying sources are US federal agencies).
- All sources are official government APIs — public data, no scraping, no ToS friction.
- ACS figures are 5-year estimates (2023 vintage); BLS county rates are not seasonally adjusted.

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Run start | $0.02 |
| Per location profiled | $0.08 |

Batch of 50 candidate sites: **$4.02** — versus an afternoon of copy-pasting from four government websites.

### FAQ

**Which inputs work?**
US street addresses ("90 W Broad St, Columbus, OH 43215") or coordinates ("39.9621,-83.0025"). City names alone don't geocode — include a street address or use coordinates.

**Do I need API keys?**
The county resolution, unemployment (BLS), and weather (NWS) sections work with no keys at all. Add a free Census key for demographics and a free FRED key for state economics — the record tells you exactly where to get each key if a section is skipped.

**Is this US-only?**
Yes — the underlying sources are US federal agencies.

**How current is the data?**
Unemployment is the latest monthly BLS figure (with year-ago comparison). Demographics are Census ACS 5-year estimates. Weather is live. Each section names its source and vintage.

**What's a typical batch cost?**
50 locations: $0.02 + 50 × $0.08 = $4.02.

### Changelog

- **2026-08-22** — Full five-source verification (Census, BLS, FRED, NWS, geocoder); graceful handling of unactivated Census keys; demo location on empty input.
- **2026-08-20** — Launch: one-call county profile joining four federal agencies.

***

### More tools by Businessquik

Verified data tools built on official and public-mandate sources — no logins, no gray areas, no fragile scrapers:

- [Bank Statement Extractor — PDF statements to reconciled CSV/JSON](https://apify.com/businessquik/bank-statement-extractor)
- [Hospital Price File Normalizer — comparable hospital prices from CMS MRFs](https://apify.com/businessquik/hospital-mrf-normalizer)
- [FDA Recall Monitor — new-recalls-only alerts for drugs, devices & food](https://apify.com/businessquik/fda-recall-monitor)
- [Patent Signals — filing velocity, new entrants & expiry intel](https://apify.com/businessquik/patent-signals)

**Support:** open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab — layout/format reports are usually fixed within days. Describe the *shape* of your file or query; never post real bank statements or sensitive data.

# Actor input Schema

## `locations` (type: `array`):

US street addresses ("90 W Broad St, Columbus, OH 43215") and/or "lat,lon" pairs ("39.9621,-83.0025"). One profile per entry.

## `censusApiKey` (type: `string`):

Free instant key from api.census.gov/data/key\_signup.html. Without it, the demographics section is skipped.

## `fredApiKey` (type: `string`):

Free key from fred.stlouisfed.org. Adds state-level economic context (unemployment trend).

## `blsApiKey` (type: `string`):

Free key from data.bls.gov raises daily limits. Keyless works for light use.

## `includeWeather` (type: `boolean`):

Adds a National Weather Service forecast and any active weather alerts to each profile.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "locations": [
    "39.9621,-83.0025"
  ],
  "includeWeather": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "locations": [
        "39.9621,-83.0025"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("businessquik/location-profile").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "locations": ["39.9621,-83.0025"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("businessquik/location-profile").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "locations": [
    "39.9621,-83.0025"
  ]
}' |
apify call businessquik/location-profile --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,businessquik/location-profile"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/yObC5tI2lHFPMEJxS/builds/RnLgzPgTQpIapZyVD/openapi.json