As of the 2000 census, there were 93 people, 38 households, and 25 families residing in the township.
The population density was . There were 97 housing units at an average density of .
The racial makeup of the township was 97.85% White and 2.15% African American.
There were 38 households, out of which 26.3% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 63.2% were married couples living together, 2.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% were non-families. 26.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.3% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 3.00.
The township median age of forty-five years was significantly more than the county median age of forty years. The distribution by age group was 17.2% under the age of eighteen, 8.6% from eighteen to twenty-four, 23.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 43.0% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 7.5% who were sixty-five years of age or older.
For every one hundred females, there were 132.5 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 120.0 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $35,938, and the median income for a family was $36,563. Males had a median income of $28,750 compared with that of $18,750 for females.
The per capita income for the township was $16,573.
There were 9.5% of families and 17.9% of the population living below the poverty line, including 26.7% of those who were under age eighteen with no one who was over the age of sixty-four impoverished.
History
Hovey Township appears in the 1876 Atlas of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.