Rules Beach, Queensland

Rules Beach is a coastal town and rural 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.
The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some horticulture.

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 wide and covering with flames of high during an extreme heatwave.

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.

There are no schools in Rules Beach. The nearest government primary school is Wartburg State School in neighbouring Baffle Creek to the west. The nearest government secondary school is Rosedale State School in Rosedale to the south-west.