Table 34: Median Age for American Indian and Alaska Native Alone Population by Sex for
          the State of Texas and Councils of Governments Regions in Texas, 2000
           - Ranked by American Indian and Alaska Native Alone Median Age
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                                                      American         American         American
                                                     Indian and       Indian and       Indian and
                                                   Alaska Native    Alaska Native    Alaska Native
                                                       Alone            Alone            Alone
                                                     Median Age       Median Age       Median Age
Rank    State/COG                                    Both Sexes          Male            Female  
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   .    State of Texas                                  29.9             29.5             30.3

   1    South East Texas                                34.8             33.4             36.2
   2    East Texas                                      34.1             33.2             35.4
   3    Concho Valley                                   34.0             32.4             36.0
   4    Deep East Texas                                 33.9             35.1             32.8
   5    Panhandle                                       33.1             31.1             34.8
   6    Ark-Tex                                         33.0             31.1             34.1
   7    West Central Texas                              32.6             33.0             32.4
   8    Golden Crescent                                 32.4             33.3             30.6
   9    Coastal Bend                                    31.5             31.1             32.0
  10    Permian Basin                                   31.2             31.0             31.7
  12    Nortex                                          31.0             29.8             32.5
  12    Heart of Texas                                  31.0             30.3             31.8
  13    North Central Texas                             30.6             30.2             31.0
  15    Brazos Valley                                   29.8             28.3             31.3
  15    Texoma                                          29.8             28.9             30.7
  16    Houston-Galveston                               29.6             29.3             30.0
  17    Alamo Area                                      29.3             29.3             29.3
  18    Capital Area                                    29.2             28.8             29.8
  19    South Plains                                    28.8             29.6             28.2
  20    Central Texas                                   27.5             27.1             28.0
  21    Rio Grande                                      26.5             25.5             27.4
  22    Middle Rio Grande                               26.2             26.3             26.0
  23    Lower Rio Grande Valley                         26.0             25.9             26.1
  24    South Texas                                     22.4             21.0             23.6
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*Data on race/ethnicity shown in tables previously produced by the Texas State Data
 Center were for four mutually exclusive groups which combined data on non-Hispanic
 and Hispanic persons by origin for all 63 racial groups included in the 2000 Census.
 The groups placed in each of these four categories are described in the State Data
 Center webpage item on comparing 1990 and 2000 data on race/ethnicity. In this and
 other tables produced from the SF1 files, data are shown for the predetermined (by
 the Census Bureau) categories of White Alone, Black Alone, American Indian or Alaskan
 Native Alone, Asian Alone, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Alone, Some Other
 Race Alone, and Two or more races.  The data in these categories are not equivalent, 
 and cannot be made equivalent, to those provided previously by the Texas State Data
 Center or data for 1990.  In the tables from SF1 we have thus provided basic demographic
 values for the Texas population using the census categories of race and ethnicity to
 assist you in interpreting the data in the tables.  Users should be careful to not make
 direct comparisons between these data and those produced previously by the Texas State
 Data Center or those from the 1990 Census.