 This includes the populations of three Métis settlements, East Prairie (304), Gift Lake (658) and Peavine (607), located within the census subdivision that are municipalities independent of Big Lakes County.With a land area of , the census subdivision had a population density of in 2016.Excluding the three Metis settlements, Big Lakes County had a population of 4,103 in 2016, a change of from its 2011 population of 4,914.