Rules Beach, Queensland

Rules Beach is a coastal town and a locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, the locality of Rules Beach had a population of 56 people.

Geography
The southern boundary of the locality is Baffle Creek as it enters the Coral Sea. The land to the north of Baffle Creek as it enters the sea is the Mouth of Baffle Creek Conservation Park. The town itself is a single street of houses by the ocean.

History
The locality was named and bounded on 9 April 1999.

On 26 November 2018, the Queensland Government ordered the evacuation of Baffle Creek, Deepwater and Rules Beach due to a "dangerous and unpredictable" bushfire 50 km wide and covering 5000 ha with flames of 10 to 12 m high during an extreme heatwave.

Demographics
In the, the locality of Rules Beach had a population of 86 people.

In the, the locality of Rules Beach had a population of 56 people.