Table 2: Median Age by Sex and Race/Ethnicity for the State of Texas and Metropolitan Statistical Areas 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/MSA 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 Abilene 32.2 30.5 33.9 34.8 32.9 36.4 25.8 24.7 27.1 30.0 29.7 30.7 31.7 26.3 36.4 23.9 25.6 23.4 Amarillo 33.4 32.2 34.6 36.3 35.0 37.6 28.6 28.9 27.9 32.6 31.2 34.0 30.3 30.2 30.5 31.0 30.5 33.5 Austin-San Marcos 30.9 30.2 31.6 33.2 32.4 34.1 29.4 28.4 30.3 29.0 28.6 29.5 28.2 27.6 28.7 26.1 25.7 26.5 Beaumont-Port Arthur 35.6 34.1 37.0 38.4 37.1 39.7 30.5 29.0 32.1 34.8 33.4 36.2 28.6 28.7 28.6 34.8 34.3 37.5 Brazoria 34.0 34.0 34.0 35.6 35.3 35.8 34.4 35.6 32.4 34.9 35.0 34.8 32.4 32.1 32.6 29.8 30.3 29.3 Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito 29.0 27.3 30.4 30.1 28.4 31.6 25.8 26.2 25.1 28.1 27.4 28.9 33.0 32.1 33.9 25.3 29.3 23.1 Bryan-College Station 23.6 23.4 24.0 23.6 23.4 23.9 24.7 22.6 26.8 25.8 24.4 27.9 26.3 25.8 27.1 21.8 21.5 22.2 Corpus Christi 33.0 31.8 34.2 35.8 34.6 36.9 29.5 28.1 31.3 31.0 30.8 31.3 34.7 31.0 36.9 27.3 26.3 28.7 Dallas 31.8 30.9 32.6 34.5 33.6 35.5 29.5 28.1 30.7 30.4 30.2 30.6 30.9 30.7 31.1 27.7 27.8 27.7 El Paso 30.0 28.4 31.6 31.7 29.9 33.3 28.5 29.1 27.6 26.4 25.1 27.4 36.0 31.4 40.5 28.0 28.5 27.5 Ft. Worth-Arlington 32.8 32.0 33.7 35.4 34.5 36.3 29.2 27.9 30.2 31.1 30.2 31.9 30.1 29.5 30.7 23.5 23.3 23.6 Galveston-Texas City 35.9 35.2 36.5 37.9 37.4 38.4 32.9 30.1 34.8 34.7 34.2 35.2 33.3 32.5 33.9 32.0 33.5 31.5 Houston 31.6 30.8 32.4 34.6 33.8 35.4 29.8 28.2 31.2 29.1 28.8 29.4 32.6 32.1 33.2 28.2 28.5 27.5 Killeen-Temple 28.8 27.4 30.3 31.5 29.8 33.5 25.9 25.2 26.8 26.8 26.5 27.2 35.6 27.0 40.9 24.8 24.2 25.7 Laredo 26.5 25.2 27.6 26.9 25.5 28.1 24.1 24.8 23.6 22.3 20.7 23.4 32.3 32.9 31.6 26.5 28.5 26.5 Longview-Marshall 35.8 34.2 37.2 37.9 36.6 39.0 31.6 28.8 33.9 34.4 33.0 36.4 31.0 29.3 32.6 31.5 23.5 32.0 Lubbock 30.5 29.0 32.0 33.0 31.0 35.2 27.4 26.0 28.7 29.7 30.8 28.4 28.8 27.9 29.5 21.9 21.5 21.9 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 27.2 26.0 28.2 28.1 26.8 29.2 28.6 30.3 21.0 25.1 25.3 25.0 32.4 32.2 32.6 23.9 23.0 24.5 Odessa-Midland 33.0 31.7 34.3 36.3 35.0 37.3 30.5 28.0 32.7 30.7 29.9 31.3 34.2 32.4 35.3 28.5 35.5 21.9 San Angelo 33.8 31.9 35.5 36.5 34.6 38.1 26.9 24.9 29.5 31.2 27.6 32.7 32.5 26.3 36.7 25.3 27.8 21.5 San Antonio 32.7 31.4 33.9 35.5 34.2 36.8 31.2 29.9 32.5 29.0 29.0 29.1 33.8 30.4 36.7 28.0 26.8 29.5 Sherman-Denison 37.2 35.8 38.7 38.7 37.2 40.1 32.0 30.2 33.6 30.1 29.9 30.3 29.5 29.7 29.3 26.6 24.0 30.5 Texarkana 36.3 34.4 38.2 38.5 36.8 40.4 29.9 28.8 31.6 39.1 38.1 41.0 34.0 30.4 39.1 25.0 24.5 28.5 Tyler 35.5 33.9 36.9 38.6 37.1 39.9 30.4 28.4 32.2 29.6 27.3 31.0 32.5 31.1 33.5 35.8 35.3 40.5 Victoria 34.2 32.9 35.3 37.1 35.8 38.2 32.6 30.6 34.5 29.5 31.7 28.0 31.4 29.0 33.3 36.0 36.0 29.5 Waco 31.9 30.1 33.7 35.3 33.3 36.9 27.5 25.2 29.4 28.9 28.2 29.4 23.5 22.6 25.0 21.8 21.5 22.5 Wichita Falls 33.6 31.3 35.8 35.8 33.6 38.0 27.5 26.5 28.7 31.3 29.7 33.4 29.5 25.0 33.7 24.4 24.8 23.5 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________