Table 39: Median Age for Hispanic or Latino Population by Sex for the State of Texas and Metropolitan Statistical Areas in Texas, 2000 - Ranked by Hispanic or Latino Median Age _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic or Latino or Latino or Latino Median Age Median Age Median Age Rank State/MSA Both Sexes Male Female _________________________________________________________________________________________________ . State of Texas 25.5 25.1 26.1 1 Texarkana 28.6 29.3 24.7 2 Corpus Christi 28.3 27.0 29.5 3 San Antonio 27.9 26.8 28.9 4 El Paso 27.8 25.8 29.6 5 Victoria 26.8 26.3 27.3 6 Beaumont-Port Arthur 26.7 27.8 24.6 7 Galveston-Texas City 26.6 26.1 27.2 9 Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito 26.1 24.4 27.8 9 Laredo 26.1 24.7 27.3 10 Brazoria 25.5 26.0 25.0 11 San Angelo 25.4 24.4 26.3 13 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 25.1 23.9 26.2 13 Austin-San Marcos 25.1 25.0 25.3 14 Houston 24.9 24.9 25.0 15 Lubbock 24.4 24.0 24.9 17 Dallas 24.2 24.4 23.8 17 Ft. Worth-Arlington 24.2 24.5 24.0 18 Wichita Falls 23.9 24.1 23.4 19 Odessa-Midland 23.8 23.2 24.3 20 Killeen-Temple 23.7 23.3 24.1 21 Amarillo 23.3 23.5 23.1 22 Abilene 23.1 22.9 23.4 23 Waco 22.9 22.8 22.9 24 Sherman-Denison 22.7 22.8 22.3 25 Bryan-College Station 22.4 22.5 22.3 26 Longview-Marshall 21.9 22.8 20.6 27 Tyler 21.6 21.8 21.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ *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.