# io.github.andrew-sondgeroth/zipexplore-mcp

US ZIP code intelligence: demographics, weather, tax, crime, housing, voting, and more.

- **Type:** MCP server
- **Trust:** 60/100 (B), scored on the content rubric
- **Verification:** community-indexed — nobody has claimed this listing
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Author:** io.github.andrew-sondgeroth
- **License:** Unknown
- **Endpoints:** streamable-http https://mcp.zipexplore.com/mcp
- **Source:** https://mcp.zipexplore.com/mcp
- **Endpoint health:** reachable (last checked 2026-09-25T22:16:51.257Z, 5 samples) — uptime is not a security property and is not part of the trust score
- **Compatible clients:** claude-code, cursor, copilot, chatgpt, gemini (basis: transport)

## Trust

60/100 (B), scored on the content rubric
- Publisher verified: no
- Install scripts: nothing suspicious found
- Prompt-injection scan: clean
- Obfuscation scan: clean
- Evidence age: 34 days

## Security scan

- **Status:** clean
- **Scanned:** 2026-09-01T05:41:13.476Z
- **Version scanned:** live
- **CVEs:** no coverage — this entry has no package coordinates to query OSV against, so "no known CVEs" is NOT asserted for it.

## Tools

22 declared. Observed from a live `tools/list` probe.
- `get_article` — Returns the full prose of a specific ZipExplore research article. Use this for editing, fact-checking, detailed analysis, or when get_research summaries aren't 
- `ping` — Returns server status and tool/resource counts. Use this to verify the ZipExplore MCP connection is live.
- `get_methodology` — Returns ZipExplore's data interpretation guide: reasoning guardrails (associations vs. causes, small-ZIP noise, averages hiding distributions, editorial score w
- `get_research` — Returns ZipExplore's published research articles — original data findings on topics including disaster risk vs. housing costs (the Hazard Premium), food insecur
- `search_zips` — Find ZIP codes matching one or more criteria. Returns a ranked list with scores. Use this first when the user wants recommendations (e.g. "find a low-crime subu
- `get_zip_profile` — Full location profile for one ZIP code across all 12 data domains: demographics, climate, tax, crime, cost of living, voting, education, healthcare, business, a
- `compare_zips` — Side-by-side full profiles for 2–5 ZIP codes. Use when the user has finalists and needs to choose between them. Returns the same profile shape as get_zip_profil
- `get_search_fields` — Lists every field name, type, and description available for search criteria. Call this when you're unsure what field names to pass to search_zips, or when the u
- `get_census_profile` — Detailed Census / demographics data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's demographics section isn't sufficient depth. Includes population, housing, inco
- `reverse_geocode` — Convert a latitude/longitude coordinate to a ZIP code. Use when the user provides an address or map coordinates rather than a ZIP code.
- `get_zip_centroids` — Get the latitude/longitude centroid for one or more ZIP codes (max 200). Use when you need map coordinates for a set of ZIPs.
- `get_weather_profile` — Detailed climate data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's climate section isn't sufficient depth. Includes annual/monthly temperature averages, precipi
- `get_tax_profile` — Detailed tax data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's tax section isn't sufficient depth. Includes state income tax, sales tax, property tax effective 
- `get_crime_profile` — Detailed crime data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's crime section isn't sufficient depth. Includes violent crime rate, property crime rate, and dat
- `get_cost_profile` — Detailed cost of living data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's cost section isn't sufficient depth. Includes fair market rents, housing cost burden, 
- `get_voting_profile` — Detailed voting and political data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's voting section isn't sufficient depth. Includes presidential election results, p
- `get_education_profile` — Detailed school data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's education section isn't sufficient depth. Includes school counts, student-teacher ratios, grad
- `get_healthcare_profile` — Detailed healthcare data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's healthcare section isn't sufficient depth. Includes hospital count and ratings, nursing ho
- `get_business_profile` — Detailed business and employment data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's business section isn't sufficient depth. Includes top industries, sector brea
- `get_air_quality_profile` — Detailed air quality data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's air quality section isn't sufficient depth. Includes EPA AQS pollutant levels (PM2.5, PM1
- `get_disaster_risk_profile` — Detailed natural disaster risk data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's disaster risk section isn't sufficient depth. Includes FEMA NRI overall risk sc
- `get_transit_profile` — Detailed public transit data for one ZIP code. Use when get_zip_profile's transit section isn't sufficient depth. Includes bus stop count, subway station count,

## Install

**Verdict: review** — Installable, but 2 things to check first: No CVE coverage: this entry has no npm/PyPI coordinates to query OSV against, so "no known vulnerabilities" is not a claim that can be made about it.
**Cautions** (coverage gaps and advisories — never blocking)
- No CVE coverage: this entry has no npm/PyPI coordinates to query OSV against, so "no known vulnerabilities" is not a claim that can be made about it.
- No publisher has proved control of this listing; it is indexed, not vouched for.
**Config** (claude-code):
```json
"{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"zipexplore-mcp\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"https://mcp.zipexplore.com/mcp\"\n    }\n  }\n}"
```

## Blast radius

Contained to moderate — no credential declaration found, from the publisher, the upstream registry, or the README. Known so far: runs on someone else's infrastructure; read-only tool surface.
- Floor 9, ceiling 27 (tier: unknown)
- `unknown` means the floor and ceiling land in different bands — not measured enough to name one. It does not mean low.
- This is impact, not likelihood. A high radius is not a defect: a filesystem server is supposed to write files. It is never part of the trust score.

## Machine-readable views of this entry

- Signed JSON: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/packages/io.github.andrew-sondgeroth%2Fzipexplore-mcp
- Install plan: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/packages/io.github.andrew-sondgeroth%2Fzipexplore-mcp/install-plan
- Alternatives: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/alternatives/io.github.andrew-sondgeroth%2Fzipexplore-mcp
- HTML page: https://forgeregistry.com/registry/io.github.andrew-sondgeroth%2Fzipexplore-mcp
- MCP: POST https://forgeregistry.com/api/mcp → `forge_get_package` / `forge_install_plan`

## About this document

Generated by Forge (https://forgeregistry.com) — a compact rendering of the same record served, signed, at the JSON URL above. Trust and scan facts are the registry's own measurements; anything Forge did not measure is named as unmeasured rather than omitted.