Sugar Creek is a city primarily in Jackson County, Missouri with a very small part of the city limits in Clay County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,271 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Clay County is located in the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 253,335, making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri. Its county seat is Liberty. The county was organized January 2, 1822, and named in honor of U.S. Representative Henry Clay from Kentucky, later a member of the United States Senate and United States Secretary of State.