Table 38: Median Age for Two or More Races Population by Sex for the State of Texas and Councils of Governments Regions 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/COG Both Sexes Male Female _________________________________________________________________________________________________ . State of Texas 23.5 23.4 23.5 1 Middle Rio Grande 29.6 30.2 29.2 2 Lower Rio Grande Valley 27.6 26.6 28.8 3 South Texas 27.0 26.6 27.3 4 Rio Grande 26.0 24.5 27.4 6 Houston-Galveston 24.6 24.8 24.4 6 Coastal Bend 24.6 24.2 24.9 7 South East Texas 24.3 24.0 24.6 8 Alamo Area 23.9 23.1 24.7 9 Deep East Texas 23.5 22.5 24.6 10 Ark-Tex 23.3 22.1 24.6 12 North Central Texas 23.1 23.4 22.7 12 Permian Basin 23.1 23.4 22.9 14 East Texas 22.7 22.2 23.2 14 Capital Area 22.7 23.0 22.3 15 Brazos Valley 21.7 22.1 21.2 17 South Plains 21.4 21.4 21.4 17 Golden Crescent 21.4 19.9 22.4 18 Concho Valley 21.2 20.7 21.6 19 Texoma 21.0 20.3 22.0 20 Nortex 20.1 19.7 20.6 21 Panhandle 19.9 19.5 20.4 22 Heart of Texas 19.7 19.7 19.7 23 West Central Texas 18.9 18.4 19.4 24 Central Texas 17.0 16.8 17.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ *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.