[2] It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Most of the Gallitzin State Forest (Babcock Division) and a very small portion of the Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 26 occupies just over half of the township.

[3][4] At the 2000 census there were 588 people, 217 households, and 157 families living in the township.

The racial makeup of the township was 99.49% White, and 0.51% from two or more races.

[6] Of the 217 households 36.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.4% were married couples living together, 5.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.6% were non-families.