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Argenta village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Argenta village is a Census village of 879 people across 0.65 square miles of land, in Macon County. Median household income is $73,482, 84.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $363,000.
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Argenta
What Argenta is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.65 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,346
- County holding the largest share of its areaMacon County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Argenta
How many people live in Argenta
- Population879
- Median age42.0
- Population under 18226 plus or minus 52
- Share under 1825.7 percent
- Population 65 and over205 plus or minus 54
- Share 65 and over23.3 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Households363
- Family households249
- Share of households that are families68.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Argenta
Income and work in Argenta
- Median household income$73,482
- Per capita income$41,449
- Civilian labor force419
- Employed397
- Unemployed22 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate5.3 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Adults 25 and over589
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.4 percent plus or minus 18.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.1 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.2 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Argenta
- Housing units399
- Occupied units363
- Vacant units36 plus or minus 31
- Vacancy rate9.0 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Owner occupied307
- Renter occupied56 plus or minus 21
- Ownership rate84.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$106,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,286 plus or minus $375
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.0 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Single family units366
- Share single family91.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more23 plus or minus 19
- Share in buildings of two or more5.8 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Mobile homes10 plus or minus 12
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Argenta
How Argenta gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute394
- Commuting under 15 minutes109 plus or minus 43
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.7 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more92 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more23.4 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Drove alone93.9 percent
- Carpooled4.8 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Argenta
SBA loans in Argenta (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$363,000
- Average approval$121,000
- Median approval$16,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$333,000
- Largest approval$333,000
- Jobs supported5
- Jobs per approval1.7
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Argenta
Flood risk in Argenta
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170942
- Currently effective map date06/16/11
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Macon County, not Argenta
Macon County context, not Argenta figures
These are Macon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Argenta measurements.
- Establishments in Macon County2,241
- Employment at those establishments, Macon County42,511
- Covered employment, Macon County45,051
- Average annual pay, Macon County$67,788
- Average weekly wage, Macon County$1,304
- Housing units permitted, Macon County57
- Of those, single family, Macon County39
- County product, 2024, Macon County$9,053,686,000
- County product change over the prior year, Macon County2.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Macon County$49,647
Every figure in this section is published for Macon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Argenta. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Argenta questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Argenta, Illinois?
879, in 363 households. Argenta village covers 0.65 square miles of land, which is 1,346 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Argenta in?
Macon County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Argenta?
$73,482. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $106,300. Median gross rent is $1,286 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Argenta businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $363,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $16,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Argenta, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Argenta borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Argenta. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Argenta in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Argenta appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170942, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Argenta figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Macon County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Argenta.
Is zoning published for Argenta?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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