This is a list of metropolitan areas in Texas by their populations as of 2000.

#	Place Name	Population
1	Dallas-Fort Worth	5,220,000
2	Houston-Galveston-Brazoria	4,669,571
3	San Antonio	1,592,383
4	Austin-San Marcos	1,249,763
5	El Paso	679,622
6	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission	569,463
7	Beaumont-Port Arthur	385,900
8	Corpus Christi	380,783
9	Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito	335,227
10	Killeen-Temple	312,952
11	Lubbock	242,628
12	Midland-Odessa	237,132
13	Amarillo	217,858
14	Waco	213,517
15	Longview-Marshall	208,780
16	Laredo	193,117
17	Tyler	174,706
18	Bryan-College Station	152,415
19	Wichita Falls	140,518
20	Nacogdoches-Lufkin	139,333
21	Texarkana	129,749
22	Abilene	126,555
23	Sherman-Denison	110,595
24	San Angelo	104,100
25	Victoria	84,088