# Check a store location's catchment before you sign. Drive time, residents, income and nearby rivals A good address is one people can reach. Nominatim finds the coordinates, OpenRouteService draws the drive-time area and estimates its population, the Census Bureau gives the tract and its income, and DataForSEO lists the competitors already there. - For: Retailers, restaurant owners and franchisees - Providers: 4 (OpenStreetMap, US Census Bureau, openrouteservice and DataForSEO), 5 tools - Example (One geocode, one tract lookup, one drive-time area, one county tract read and one Google Maps search): at most $0.006, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-11-04 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **OpenStreetMap** (1 tool, free): The coordinates of the address. - **US Census Bureau** (2 tools, free): The census tract of the address, with population and income by tract. - **openrouteservice** (1 tool, free): The drive-time area, its size and its estimated population. - **DataForSEO** (1 tool, at most $0.006): The competitors already listed nearby on Google Maps, with their ratings. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: store catchment check. Check this US store location before I sign the lease. Find its coordinates and census tract. Draw the drive-time area I choose and read its size and estimated population. Read population and median household income for the surrounding tracts. List the competitors nearby with their ratings and review counts. Tell me what supports this site, what counts against it and what I should check in person. Use these Agentik tools for the written steps: nominatim/geocode, census/coordinates-geographies, openrouteservice/isochrones, census/acs, dataforseo/google-maps. Inspect their current schemas and availability first. Ask for missing inputs and use identifiers returned by actual earlier results. The page's example identifiers illustrate input shapes. Quote more pages before expanding. Preserve source links, dates and uncertainty. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - The US address - The drive time that matters to you - The kind of business ## Before this job - The tools must be available in your connected Agentik catalog. Ask for the missing provider configuration if a tool is unavailable. ## What you get: a site brief with drive-time reach and local competition - Drive-time area and estimated residents - Tract population and median income - Competitors with ratings and review counts - A read on the site and what to check on foot ## How to check a US store location's catchment in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: One geocode, one tract lookup, one drive-time area, one county tract read and one Google Maps search. ### 1. Locate the address Confirm that the geocoded place is the address you meant, then read its tract. - [Geocode an address](/tools/nominatim/geocode.md) `nominatim/geocode` (OpenStreetMap): free - [Census geographies at coordinates](/tools/census/coordinates-geographies.md) `census/coordinates-geographies` (US Census Bureau): free ### 2. Draw the catchment Coordinates go longitude first. The range is in seconds, so 600 means ten minutes. - [Openrouteservice isochrones reachable area](/tools/openrouteservice/isochrones.md) `openrouteservice/isochrones` (openrouteservice): free ### 3. Read residents and income Use the state and county codes from the tract lookup, then focus on the tracts near the site. - [Census American Community Survey data](/tools/census/acs.md) `census/acs` (US Census Bureau): free ### 4. List the competition Read ratings with their review counts. A 5.0 from four people says little. - [Google Maps search results](/tools/dataforseo/google-maps.md) `dataforseo/google-maps` (DataForSEO): at most $0.006 Example total: at most $0.006. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Check this US store location before I sign the lease. - Keep the sample small and cite the source for each conclusion. ## Why through Agentik - Collect the official sources through one Agentik connection. - Inspect the price of each bounded call before running it. - Keep each figure beside its source and date. ## Good to know - The drive-time population is a modelled estimate, and it assumes normal road speeds rather than rush hour. - Census tracts do not follow the drive-time edge, so treat tract income as an indication. ## When to use something else For foot traffic, mobile panels and sales forecasts, use a site selection platform. This playbook gives a fast public-data read of one address. ## Store catchment check: questions ### What does the example cost? At most $0.006 for the illustrated calls. The official records are free through Agentik, and the paid calls are the press, maps or email steps. ### Does the result cover every source? No. Public records have publication lags and search results can be incomplete. Keep the collection date, sample size and missing evidence visible. ### Does this send messages or change an account? No. These steps read public records and prepare a brief. Sending a message or changing an account requires a separate instruction. ## Keep going - [US state expansion](/us-state-expansion.md): US states ranked on establishments, payroll, population, income and unemployment, with a live check of local competition. - [Local business prospects](/local-business-prospects.md): Local businesses of one type in your area with their ratings, their websites read and tested for speed, and contacts at each, each with a concrete reason to call. - [Neighbourhood report](/neighborhood-report.md): An address’s climate over the past year, today’s air quality, earthquakes nearby, the schools, shops and gyms around it, and the local news. - [Geo tools for your agent](/tools/geo.md) - [Research tools for your agent](/tools/research.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/store-catchment-check) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)