Biohazard Cleanup Near Argyle Historic District Argyle, IL

Argyle is an unincorporated community and census-designated place that straddles the line between Boone County and Winnebago County in northern Illinois, northeast of Rockford.

Argyle is part of the Rockford Metropolitan Statistical Area and first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.

The population of Argyle was 332 at the 2020 census.

Argyle had 128 households in the 2020 census - and unusually, every single one of them was a married-couple household.

Argyle was named by an early settler who was a native of Argyll, in Scotland, and its Scottish farming settlement was documented in Daniel G. Harvey's 1924 book The Argyle Settlement in History and Story.

Chicago meatpacking magnate George Armour was among the early residents of the Argyle settlement.

Argyle was struck by an EF2 tornado on November 22, 2010, during an outbreak that affected northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

Argyle is an affluent rural enclave - its median household income was measured at $139,821, and none of its residents were counted below the poverty line in the 2020 census data.

The CDP covers 0.88 square miles, and its children are split between Rockford School District 205 and, for a portion on the Boone County side, Belvidere Consolidated Unit School District 100.