The township's population was 9,695[3] as of the 2020 Census and is included in the Bay City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The settlement of Lower Saginaw eventually separated from the township as Bay City.

In 2016, Consumers Energy closed its Weadock Generating Plant in Hampton.

While the company indicated in early 2018 that two coal units at Karn Generating Complex, also in Hampton, will close by 2023.

After a public safety committee was formed and a town hall meeting was held, the township's Board of Trustees on October 1, 2018, voted to merge its police and fire departments.