Table 39: Median Age for Hispanic or Latino Population by Sex for the State of Texas and
          Councils of Governments Regions in Texas, 2000 - Ranked by Hispanic or Latino Median Age
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                                                      Hispanic         Hispanic         Hispanic
                                                     or Latino        or Latino        or Latino
                                                     Median Age       Median Age       Median Age
Rank    State/COG                                    Both Sexes          Male            Female  
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   .    State of Texas                                  25.5             25.1             26.1

   1    Coastal Bend                                    28.6             27.5             29.8
   2    Middle Rio Grande                               28.1             26.7             29.4
   3    Alamo Area                                      27.9             26.9             28.9
   4    Rio Grande                                      27.8             25.9             29.6
   5    Golden Crescent                                 27.2             26.8             27.6
   6    South East Texas                                26.7             27.8             24.6
   7    Concho Valley                                   26.6             26.1             27.1
   8    South Texas                                     26.2             24.7             27.5
   9    Lower Rio Grande Valley                         25.5             24.1             26.8
  10    Permian Basin                                   25.4             25.5             25.3
  11    Capital Area                                    25.1             25.0             25.2
  12    Houston-Galveston                               25.0             25.0             25.1
  13    West Central Texas                              24.7             24.9             24.5
  14    South Plains                                    24.4             24.1             24.7
  15    North Central Texas                             24.2             24.4             23.8
  16    Ark-Tex                                         24.0             25.3             21.1
  17    Deep East Texas                                 23.7             25.0             21.7
  18    Central Texas                                   23.6             23.3             24.0
  19    Nortex                                          23.5             23.8             23.0
  21    Panhandle                                       23.2             23.5             22.9
  21    East Texas                                      23.2             24.5             21.0
  22    Brazos Valley                                   23.1             23.5             22.5
  23    Heart of Texas                                  22.9             23.0             22.8
  24    Texoma                                          22.6             23.3             21.3
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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.