Table 2: Median Age by Sex and Race/Ethnicity for the State of Texas and Councils of Governments Regions in Texas, 2000 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Black or African American Indian and Native Hawaiian & Other Total White Alone American Alone Alaska Native Alone Asian Alone Pacific Islander Alone ________________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ _____________________ ________________________ State/COG Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ State of Texas 32.3 31.3 33.4 35.1 33.9 36.2 29.8 28.5 31.0 29.9 29.5 30.3 31.3 30.5 32.1 26.7 26.5 26.9 Panhandle 34.5 33.2 35.8 0.0 36.2 38.9 0.0 29.9 28.4 0.0 31.1 34.8 0.0 30.6 31.0 0.0 24.0 32.5 South Plains 31.6 30.2 33.3 0.0 32.9 36.8 0.0 26.8 29.1 0.0 29.6 28.2 0.0 28.1 29.9 0.0 21.5 21.6 Nortex 35.9 33.8 38.0 0.0 35.9 40.0 0.0 26.9 29.7 0.0 29.8 32.5 0.0 26.0 34.4 0.0 26.5 23.8 North Central Texas 32.1 31.2 32.9 0.0 33.8 35.8 0.0 28.0 30.5 0.0 30.2 31.0 0.0 30.4 31.0 0.0 25.7 25.9 Ark-Tex 37.0 35.3 38.7 0.0 37.6 40.9 0.0 29.1 33.3 0.0 31.1 34.1 0.0 31.1 37.4 0.0 31.3 19.0 East Texas 37.1 35.7 38.6 0.0 38.1 40.8 0.0 31.5 33.9 0.0 33.2 35.4 0.0 30.5 34.3 0.0 28.3 34.3 West Central Texas 36.4 34.5 38.2 0.0 36.9 40.6 0.0 27.9 29.1 0.0 33.0 32.4 0.0 26.6 36.1 0.0 25.8 25.5 Rio Grande 30.1 28.5 31.7 0.0 30.1 33.4 0.0 29.0 27.5 0.0 25.5 27.4 0.0 31.4 40.5 0.0 28.6 27.5 Permian Basin 33.6 32.4 34.8 0.0 35.1 37.7 0.0 30.0 33.3 0.0 31.0 31.7 0.0 32.7 35.8 0.0 37.3 22.3 Concho Valley 35.6 33.9 37.1 0.0 36.5 39.8 0.0 24.9 30.2 0.0 32.4 36.0 0.0 26.6 36.3 0.0 28.5 23.0 Heart of Texas 34.3 32.3 35.9 0.0 35.7 39.1 0.0 26.4 31.1 0.0 30.3 31.8 0.0 22.9 26.3 0.0 23.5 24.0 Capital Area 31.5 30.7 32.3 0.0 33.1 35.0 0.0 28.4 30.5 0.0 28.8 29.8 0.0 27.7 28.8 0.0 25.8 27.0 Brazos Valley 28.3 27.2 29.6 0.0 28.4 31.2 0.0 27.2 30.3 0.0 28.3 31.3 0.0 26.1 27.3 0.0 24.0 23.8 Deep East Texas 36.8 35.6 38.0 0.0 38.1 40.7 0.0 30.5 32.2 0.0 35.1 32.8 0.0 29.3 32.7 0.0 27.3 25.8 South East Texas 35.6 34.1 37.0 0.0 37.1 39.7 0.0 29.0 32.1 0.0 33.4 36.2 0.0 28.7 28.6 0.0 34.3 37.5 Houston-Galveston 32.0 31.2 32.8 0.0 34.2 35.7 0.0 28.6 31.4 0.0 29.3 30.0 0.0 32.1 33.1 0.0 28.6 28.1 Golden Crescent 36.5 35.4 37.6 0.0 37.8 40.2 0.0 34.6 36.6 0.0 33.3 30.6 0.0 31.1 34.3 0.0 28.0 31.5 Alamo Area 33.2 31.9 34.6 0.0 34.8 37.4 0.0 29.7 32.5 0.0 29.3 29.3 0.0 30.4 36.7 0.0 27.0 29.5 South Texas 26.7 25.3 27.9 0.0 25.6 28.3 0.0 25.4 25.9 0.0 21.0 23.6 0.0 32.5 32.0 0.0 22.0 21.5 Coastal Bend 33.3 32.0 34.8 0.0 34.8 37.3 0.0 28.7 31.3 0.0 31.1 32.0 0.0 29.1 36.4 0.0 25.5 26.4 Lower Rio Grande Valley 27.9 26.5 29.1 0.0 27.4 30.2 0.0 29.4 23.0 0.0 25.9 26.1 0.0 32.1 33.0 0.0 25.1 23.4 Texoma 37.3 35.8 38.9 0.0 37.3 40.3 0.0 30.1 33.6 0.0 28.9 30.7 0.0 29.5 32.1 0.0 26.3 28.5 Central Texas 29.9 28.4 31.7 0.0 31.2 35.4 0.0 25.2 26.9 0.0 27.1 28.0 0.0 27.2 41.0 0.0 24.3 25.9 Middle Rio Grande 30.6 29.5 31.8 0.0 30.9 33.8 0.0 29.7 23.4 0.0 26.3 26.0 0.0 29.6 33.9 0.0 25.0 32.5 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________