`datacommons_child_places`

Pack: datacommons · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/datacommons_child_places for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Compare one Google Data Commons statistical variable across every child place of a parent — e.g. population of all US states, median income of every county in Texas (geoId/48, County), GDP of every country in Europe. Returns rows sorted by value with names and the publisher of each value.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`_apiKey`	string	yes
`variable`	string	yes	Statistical variable dcid, e.g. Count_Person
`parent_place`	string	yes	Parent place dcid, e.g. country/USA, geoId/48, europe, Earth
`child_type`	string	yes	Child place type, e.g. State, County, City, Country
`date`	string	no	LATEST (default) or a date: 2020, 2020-06
`sort`	string	no	Sort by value (default desc)
`limit`	number	no	Max rows (default 50, max 300)

Example call

Arguments

{
  "variable": "Count_Person",
  "parent_place": "country/USA",
  "child_type": "State",
  "limit": 5
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/datacommons/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"datacommons_child_places","arguments":{"variable":"Count_Person","parent_place":"country/USA","child_type":"State","limit":5}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('datacommons_child_places', {
  "variable": "Count_Person",
  "parent_place": "country/USA",
  "child_type": "State",
  "limit": 5
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the datacommons pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datacommons": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/datacommons/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

datacommons_child_places