The racial makeup of the township was 99.15% White, 0.10% Native American, 0.05% Asian, and 0.70% from two or more races.

18.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

A corridor of Amish settlements developed in the 19th and 20th centuries roughly along the Great Shamokin Path[citation needed] as a means of travel and migration through Clearfield, Jefferson, Indiana and Armstrong counties, beginning at Big Spring near Luthersburg, Clearfield County, and ending in Rural Valley in Armstrong County.

The Troutville Amish settlement in Brady Township, Clearfield County, is good-sized and has eight church districts.

An example of a new community formed by migration, it is the third-largest Amish settlement in Pennsylvania, and the eleventh largest in the U.S.

The Smicksburg settlement has specialty shops featuring Amish wares of handcrafts, quilts, furniture, foods and eating establishments.

[6][9] Rural Valley is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where the Cowanshannock Creek flows west leading to the Allegheny River.