This is a list of metropolitan areas in Texas by their populations as of 2000.
| #
| Place Name
| Population
|
| 1
| Dallas—Fort Worth—Arlington
| 5,161,544
|
| 2
| Houston—Sugar Land—Baytown
| 4,715,407
|
| 3
| San Antonio
| 1,592,383
|
| 4
| Austin—Round Rock
| 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
| 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
| College Station—Bryan
| 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
|
