Table 41: Median Age for Total, Not Hispanic or Latino Population by Sex for the State of Texas and Councils of Governments Regions in Texas, 2000 - Ranked by Total, Not Hispanic or Latino Median Age _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total, Not Total, Not Total, Not Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic or Latino or Latino or Latino Median Age Median Age Median Age Rank State/COG Both Sexes Male Female _________________________________________________________________________________________________ . State of Texas 36.2 35.2 37.2 1 Lower Rio Grande Valley 50.2 48.4 52.1 2 Middle Rio Grande 41.6 40.7 42.7 3 Golden Crescent 41.1 39.9 42.3 4 Concho Valley 40.0 38.2 41.7 5 Permian Basin 39.5 38.3 40.7 7 West Central Texas 39.2 37.3 41.1 7 Coastal Bend 39.2 37.8 40.6 8 East Texas 38.8 37.5 40.3 12 Panhandle 38.7 37.2 40.1 12 Rio Grande 38.7 37.5 40.1 12 Alamo Area 38.7 37.4 40.0 12 Texoma 38.7 37.2 40.2 13 Deep East Texas 38.5 37.3 39.7 14 Ark-Tex 38.4 36.8 39.9 15 Nortex 37.6 35.5 39.7 16 Heart of Texas 37.1 35.3 38.7 17 South East Texas 36.6 35.2 38.0 18 South Texas 36.5 36.5 36.5 19 South Plains 36.4 34.3 38.3 20 Houston-Galveston 35.8 35.0 36.4 21 North Central Texas 35.1 34.2 35.8 22 Capital Area 34.4 33.4 35.3 23 Central Texas 31.4 29.6 33.4 24 Brazos Valley 29.9 28.5 31.5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ *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.