Tract characteristics provide valuable information for the evaluation of white matter development in human brain. In the current study, we investigated the geometric and diffusion tract characteristics between two young and elder groups. The tract characteristics of number of fibers (NF), averaged length (AL), fractional anisotropy (FA), relative anisotropy (RA), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), linear tensor (C-l), number of voxels (NV) and volume ratio (VR) were measured on the three fiber tracts of corpus callosum (CC), corticospinal tract (CST), whole brain tract (WBT), and the statistical analyses of t-tests were conducted. With the brain aging, it is found that NF, AL, FA, RA, C-l, NV decreased (P < 0.05), VR almost unchanged (P > 0.05) and the ADC increased with aging (P < 0.05). In conclusion, the measurement of tract characteristics provides quantitative indices for WM tracts and it can be used as reference markers to the studies of brain aging.