Table 38: Median Age for Two or More Races Population by Sex for the State of Texas and Metropolitan Statistical Areas in Texas, 2000 - Ranked by Two or More Races Median Age _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Two or Two or Two or More Races More Races More Races Median Age Median Age Median Age Rank State/MSA Both Sexes Male Female _________________________________________________________________________________________________ . State of Texas 23.5 23.4 23.5 1 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 27.8 27.0 28.7 2 Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito 27.1 25.6 28.6 3 Laredo 26.7 26.2 27.1 4 El Paso 25.9 24.6 27.3 5 Houston 24.8 25.0 24.7 6 Texarkana 24.4 20.6 28.2 7 Beaumont-Port Arthur 24.3 24.0 24.6 8 Corpus Christi 24.1 23.6 24.5 9 San Antonio 23.6 22.9 24.4 11 Galveston-Texas City 23.5 23.2 23.9 11 Dallas 23.5 23.9 23.0 13 Austin-San Marcos 22.6 23.0 22.2 13 Longview-Marshall 22.6 21.5 24.3 15 Ft. Worth-Arlington 22.2 22.4 22.0 15 Odessa-Midland 22.2 22.1 22.4 16 Brazoria 21.9 23.2 20.4 17 Bryan-College Station 21.5 21.9 21.1 18 Tyler 21.2 21.6 20.9 19 Sherman-Denison 21.1 20.3 22.2 20 Lubbock 20.9 20.6 21.3 21 San Angelo 20.5 19.8 21.0 22 Victoria 19.7 18.3 21.8 23 Waco 19.6 19.6 19.5 24 Wichita Falls 19.5 19.2 19.8 25 Amarillo 17.8 17.3 18.3 26 Abilene 17.1 16.7 17.6 27 Killeen-Temple 16.7 16.5 16.9 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ *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.