County Profile lets you fetch a county profile by 5-digit FIPS code. Send the county_fips path value and get a JSON response for that county back.
Use County Profile when you need a reliable lookup step in address intelligence, demographic enrichment, reporting, or internal admin tools. A single request is enough to resolve one county identifier into the profile payload exposed by the API.
The endpoint accepts one input: county_fips. The code must be a 5-digit county FIPS string such as 06037. The response includes the county profile, including the county FIPS code, county name, state name, population, demographic metrics, last updated timestamp, and attribution information.
This is a good fit for systems that store county codes and need to retrieve the associated profile on demand, rather than maintaining a local copy of reference data.
Fetch a county profile by providing the 5-digit county FIPS code in the path.
curl -X GET "http://localhost:8080/dosvak/county-profile/:county_fips" \
-H "apy-token: $APY_TOKEN"Returns a JSON object containing the county profile, including the county FIPS code, county name, state name, population, demographic metrics, last updated timestamp, and attribution information.
{
"county_fips": "06037",
"county_name": "Los Angeles County",
"state_name": "California",
"population": 9757179,
"median_household_income": "80794",
"poverty_rate": "13.1",
"unemployment_rate": "5.4",
"updated_at": "2026-07-27T23:40:59Z",
"attribution": [
{
"source": "U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program"
}
]
}Loading your default key…Returns the county profile for a specified county FIPS code. The request identifies the county by its 5-digit FIPS value in the path.
| Attribute | Type | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| county_fips | String | Yes | 5-digit county FIPS code. |
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