In 2021, 83 per cent of the Baffle Creek, Deepwater and Rules Beach population was born in Australia, compared to 79.6 per cent in the Gladstone Region.

A further 6 per cent were born overseas from other English-speaking countries including, England and New Zealand. A further 16.3 per cent did not state their country of birth. This is in addition to 1.4 per cent, or four people who stated they were born elsewhere.

There are 31 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Baffle Creek and Deepwater which is 6.2 per cent of the population.

There were no Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Rules Beach, in 2021 or 2016.

When looking at Baffle Creek and Deepwater in isolation there has been a notable change in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. In 2016 there were 13 community members living in Baffle Creek, this decreased to eight in 2021. While in Deepwater there were three community members in 2016, increasing to 23 in 2021.

The combined data shows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.5 per cent of the population in 2016 compared to 6.2 per cent in 2021.

English is the main language spoken at home for 81.9 per cent of the communities of Baffle Creek, Deepwater and Rules Beach, compared to 87.1 per cent in the Gladstone Region. The only other stated language used at home is Australian Indigenous languages, spoken by five people or 1.7 per cent of the population.

It is worth noting that 16.7 per cent of the population did not state the language used at home.