investors
housing-supply
permits
employment
read-only
paid
x402
category:economics

County jobs against housing units permitted (BLS QCEW + Census BPS)

BLS QCEW employment change over Census BPS permitted units, the permits share of ACS housing stock, cited benchmarks, and published critiques, for an address, for agents. Returns the same records as locus_housing_supply_balance. Use this when your client can only call paid x402 routes. Use locus_housing_supply_balance instead when you can call Locus free tools (REST tools/call or MCP).

post/api/locus-housing-supply-balance

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.locus.report
  • URL: https://api.locus.report/api/locus-housing-supply-balance
  • Auth: one of:
    • API key in header PAYMENT-SIGNATURE
    • API key in header Authorization

Request body

addressstring

Optional US street address or place; NC uses AddressNC first, other areas use the national geocoder fallback when latitude/longitude are not provided.

latitudenumber

Optional decimal latitude; provide with longitude to skip address geocoding.

longitudenumber

Optional decimal longitude; provide with latitude to skip address geocoding.

permitYearinteger

Optional permit-year override, e.g. 2024; default is the newest published Census BPS annual county year.

Response

Atomic read result. A substantive result is paid; an empty/out-of-coverage result carries charged:false (x402 settlement suppressed).

object required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.