It is part of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[3] The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi is based in Athens Township.

Unlike in many other parts of Michigan the Potawatomi people were never fully driven out, although their reservation was dissolved in 1833.

[4] Based on the 1910 US census for Athens township and village there were 1,537 residents, of whom five were listed as mulattoes (four of them children of a mulatto mother and white father) and 69 were listed as Indians.

As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 2,571 people, 956 households, and 738 families residing in the township.

19.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.