Table 34: Median Age for American Indian and Alaska Native Alone Population by Sex for
          the State of Texas and Metropolitan Statistical Areas in Texas, 2000
           - Ranked by American Indian and Alaska Native Alone Median Age
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                                                      American         American         American
                                                     Indian and       Indian and       Indian and
                                                   Alaska Native    Alaska Native    Alaska Native
                                                       Alone            Alone            Alone
                                                     Median Age       Median Age       Median Age
Rank    State/MSA                                    Both Sexes          Male            Female  
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   .    State of Texas                                  29.9             29.5             30.3

   1    Texarkana                                       39.1             38.1             41.0
   2    Brazoria                                        34.9             35.0             34.8
   3    Beaumont-Port Arthur                            34.8             33.4             36.2
   4    Galveston-Texas City                            34.7             34.2             35.2
   5    Longview-Marshall                               34.4             33.0             36.4
   6    Amarillo                                        32.6             31.2             34.0
   7    Wichita Falls                                   31.3             29.7             33.4
   8    San Angelo                                      31.2             27.6             32.7
   9    Ft. Worth-Arlington                             31.1             30.2             31.9
  10    Corpus Christi                                  31.0             30.8             31.3
  11    Odessa-Midland                                  30.7             29.9             31.3
  12    Dallas                                          30.4             30.2             30.6
  13    Sherman-Denison                                 30.1             29.9             30.3
  14    Abilene                                         30.0             29.7             30.7
  15    Lubbock                                         29.7             30.8             28.4
  16    Tyler                                           29.6             27.3             31.0
  17    Victoria                                        29.5             31.7             28.0
  18    Houston                                         29.1             28.8             29.4
  20    San Antonio                                     29.0             29.0             29.1
  20    Austin-San Marcos                               29.0             28.6             29.5
  21    Waco                                            28.9             28.2             29.4
  22    Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito                28.1             27.4             28.9
  23    Killeen-Temple                                  26.8             26.5             27.2
  24    El Paso                                         26.4             25.1             27.4
  25    Bryan-College Station                           25.8             24.4             27.9
  26    McAllen-Edinburg-Mission                        25.1             25.3             25.0
  27    Laredo                                          22.3             20.7             23.4
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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.