Asylum Township is located in southeastern Bradford County along the southwest side of the Susquehanna River.

There is a crossing of the Susquehanna at Asylum Township's northern end, where Pennsylvania Route 187 crosses from the unincorporated community of Macedonia into the unincorporated community of Wysox.

[3] After the Haitian Revolution in 1791, French aristocrats moved from Haiti to the town, and stayed there until Napoleon let them back in France in the early 1800s.

[4] As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 1,097 people, 417 households, and 319 families residing in the township.

18.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.