Censible MCP server

The Australian Census for any place, as tools for your AI assistant. Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client about a suburb, postcode, council or region and it answers from the ABS Census (2011, 2016 and 2021), with projections to 2041.

https://api.censible.com.au/mcp

A hosted, remote server (Streamable HTTP). There's nothing to install and no API key: the first time your assistant connects, it opens a Censible page where you sign in (or sign up, free) and allow it.

What you can ask

"Which Melbourne suburbs are most like Brunswick, but with cheaper rent?"
"Which Queensland suburbs have the highest median household income?"
"How many people live within 3 km of Parramatta station, and how old are they?"
"How have my saved areas changed since 2016?"

Behind the answers:

649 measures across population, work, education, income and housing, curated from the ABS Census DataPacks.
Every standard place on current (2026) boundaries: suburbs, postcodes, councils, state electorates, statistical areas (SA2 to SA4), capital cities and states, each with Australia to compare against.
ABS's own figures wherever ABS publishes one, so counts and medians match QuickStats.
Areas worked out properly: several places pooled, a circle around a point, or minutes' drive or walk from one. Counts are summed first and each measure's formula applied last, so shares and medians are right.
Projections for 2026, 2031, 2036 and 2041, always labelled as projections.

Connect

Claude (web, desktop and mobile)

Open Settings › Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
Name it Censible and paste https://api.censible.com.au/mcp.
Choose Connect, then sign in and allow Claude.

ChatGPT

Open Settings › Apps & Connectors. Under Advanced settings, turn on Developer mode.
Choose Create, name it Censible, paste https://api.censible.com.au/mcp and pick OAuth.
Sign in and allow ChatGPT.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http censible https://api.censible.com.au/mcp

Then type /mcp in Claude Code, choose censible, and sign in.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or your project's .cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "censible": {
      "url": "https://api.censible.com.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Then in Cursor Settings › MCP, choose Connect beside censible and sign in.

Cline

Add to cline_mcp_settings.json (MCP Servers › Configure):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "censible": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://api.censible.com.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Then choose Authenticate beside censible and sign in.

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "censible": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.censible.com.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients

Any client that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth works with the address above. For one that only runs local servers, bridge it with mcp-remote:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "censible": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.censible.com.au/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Tools

Tool	What it does	Plan
`search_places`	Find places by name, postcode or code, for their ids	Free
`places_at_point`	The suburb, postcode, council, electorate and regions containing a point	Free
`search_metrics`	Find measures by words or topic, for their ids	Free
`get_place_figures`	Figures for up to 20 places side by side	Free
`list_saved_areas`	Your saved areas (from the web app or `save_area`)	Free
`saved_area_figures`	Figures for one of your saved areas	Free
`save_area`	Save an area to your account, where the web app shows it too	Free
`rank_places`	The places with the highest or lowest value of a measure	Explore
`find_similar_places`	Places like one you know, or that meet criteria	Explore
`area_figures`	Figures for places pooled, a circle, a drawn shape, or a drive or walk time	Team
`list_site_sets`	Your site sets (your own locations, such as stores)	Team
`site_set_figures`	Each site's catchment figures	Team
`site_contrast`	What sets your best-performing sites apart from the rest	Network

Every tool except save_area only reads.

Plans

Every plan includes the MCP server, Free too, with a month's requests for your whole team.

Free: the topics ABS publishes in QuickStats, for 2011, 2016 and 2021, for every suburb, postcode, council and statistical area from SA2 to state.
Explore: all 649 measures for 2021, state electorates and SA1s, ranking and finding similar places.
Team: 2011 and 2016 for every measure, catchments and custom areas, and your own sites, for a whole organisation.
Network: projections to 2041, and your sites' performance.

What a plan doesn't include is left out of answers (or refused, when asked for by name), and your assistant is told why. Prices and limits: censible.com.au/pricing.

Privacy

Your assistant sees the census figures your plan has, plus your own saved areas and site sets, never anyone else's. Disconnect it any time from Use with AI in the Censible app.

About the data

Census figures are from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 2011, 2016 and 2021, under CC BY 4.0. Censible curates them, carries them onto current boundaries and adds projections and modelled figures; these are Censible's estimates, not ABS figures. The 2026 Census results are due from 2027.

Support

hello@censible.com.au · censible.com.au

This repository holds the server's documentation and listing files. The server itself is hosted by Censible and its code isn't published here. See LICENSE.

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