Table 32: Median Age for White Alone Population by Sex for the State of Texas and Metropolitan Statistical Areas in Texas, 2000 - Ranked by White Alone Median Age _________________________________________________________________________________________________ White Alone White Alone White Alone Median Age Median Age Median Age Rank State/MSA Both Sexes Male Female _________________________________________________________________________________________________ . State of Texas 35.1 33.9 36.2 1 Sherman-Denison 38.7 37.2 40.1 2 Tyler 38.6 37.1 39.9 3 Texarkana 38.5 36.8 40.4 4 Beaumont-Port Arthur 38.4 37.1 39.7 6 Galveston-Texas City 37.9 37.4 38.4 6 Longview-Marshall 37.9 36.6 39.0 7 Victoria 37.1 35.8 38.2 8 San Angelo 36.5 34.6 38.1 10 Amarillo 36.3 35.0 37.6 10 Odessa-Midland 36.3 35.0 37.3 12 Wichita Falls 35.8 33.6 38.0 12 Corpus Christi 35.8 34.6 36.9 13 Brazoria 35.6 35.3 35.8 14 San Antonio 35.5 34.2 36.8 15 Ft. Worth-Arlington 35.4 34.5 36.3 16 Waco 35.3 33.3 36.9 17 Abilene 34.8 32.9 36.4 18 Houston 34.6 33.8 35.4 19 Dallas 34.5 33.6 35.5 20 Austin-San Marcos 33.2 32.4 34.1 21 Lubbock 33.0 31.0 35.2 22 El Paso 31.7 29.9 33.3 23 Killeen-Temple 31.5 29.8 33.5 24 Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito 30.1 28.4 31.6 25 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 28.1 26.8 29.2 26 Laredo 26.9 25.5 28.1 27 Bryan-College Station 23.6 23.4 23.9 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ *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.