Table 33: Median Age for Black Alone Population by Sex for the State of Texas and Metropolitan
          Statistical Areas in Texas, 2000 - Ranked by Black Alone Median Age
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                                                    Black Alone      Black Alone      Black Alone
                                                     Median Age       Median Age       Median Age
Rank    State/MSA                                    Both Sexes          Male            Female  
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   .    State of Texas                                  29.8             28.5             31.0

   1    Brazoria                                        34.4             35.6             32.4
   2    Galveston-Texas City                            32.9             30.1             34.8
   3    Victoria                                        32.6             30.6             34.5
   4    Sherman-Denison                                 32.0             30.2             33.6
   5    Longview-Marshall                               31.6             28.8             33.9
   6    San Antonio                                     31.2             29.9             32.5
   8    Beaumont-Port Arthur                            30.5             29.0             32.1
   8    Odessa-Midland                                  30.5             28.0             32.7
   9    Tyler                                           30.4             28.4             32.2
  10    Texarkana                                       29.9             28.8             31.6
  11    Houston                                         29.8             28.2             31.2
  13    Corpus Christi                                  29.5             28.1             31.3
  13    Dallas                                          29.5             28.1             30.7
  14    Austin-San Marcos                               29.4             28.4             30.3
  15    Ft. Worth-Arlington                             29.2             27.9             30.2
  17    Amarillo                                        28.6             28.9             27.9
  17    McAllen-Edinburg-Mission                        28.6             30.3             21.0
  18    El Paso                                         28.5             29.1             27.6
  20    Wichita Falls                                   27.5             26.5             28.7
  20    Waco                                            27.5             25.2             29.4
  21    Lubbock                                         27.4             26.0             28.7
  22    San Angelo                                      26.9             24.9             29.5
  23    Killeen-Temple                                  25.9             25.2             26.8
  25    Abilene                                         25.8             24.7             27.1
  25    Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito                25.8             26.2             25.1
  26    Bryan-College Station                           24.7             22.6             26.8
  27    Laredo                                          24.1             24.8             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.