Greenwood vs Sugar Creek

A side-by-side comparison of Greenwood and Sugar Creek: population, income, housing, and more.

Greenwood and Sugar Creek are places in Missouri. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Greenwood has the higher population (6,000 vs 3,261 in Sugar Creek). Greenwood has the higher median household income ($104,638 vs $57,467 in Sugar Creek). Greenwood has the higher median home value ($263,300 vs $104,800 in Sugar Creek).

Population, income & housing

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
Population	6,000	3,261
Median age	37.3 yrs	42.7 yrs
Median household income	$104,638	$57,467
Median home value	$263,300	$104,800
Median gross rent	$1,679	$936
Housing units	2,193	1,559
Homeownership rate	90.9%	69.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.3%	20.1%
Unemployment rate	1.4%	6.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
Population	6,247 → 6,000 (-4.0%)	3,290 → 3,261 (-0.9%)
Median household income	$91,299 → $104,638 (+14.6%)	$42,159 → $57,467 (+36.3%)
Median home value	$170,500 → $263,300 (+54.4%)	$78,300 → $104,800 (+33.8%)
Median gross rent	$1,454 → $1,679 (+15.5%)	$827 → $936 (+13.2%)

Greenwood

Population

6,2476,000

Median household income

$91,299$104,638

Median home value

$170,500$263,300

Median gross rent

$1,454$1,679

Sugar Creek

Population

3,2903,261

Median household income

$42,159$57,467

Median home value

$78,300$104,800

Median gross rent

$827$936

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
Under 5	7.5%	4.6%
5 to 17	17.5%	17.9%
18 to 24	6.8%	6.0%
25 to 34	12.2%	13.8%
35 to 44	16.3%	11.1%
45 to 54	17.9%	16.3%
55 to 64	9.8%	14.6%
65 to 74	9.9%	10.4%
75 and over	2.1%	5.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
White (non-Hispanic)	85.4%	83.5%
Black or African American	3.2%	1.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	1.0%
Asian	0.6%	1.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	2.7%
Some other race	2.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.5%	4.6%
Hispanic or Latino	5.3%	6.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
No high school diploma	3.3%	18.3%
High school graduate	21.8%	30.7%
Some college or associate's	38.6%	30.8%
Bachelor's degree	26.3%	16.1%
Graduate or professional degree	10.0%	4.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
Drove alone	71.2%	78.1%
Carpooled	3.1%	13.8%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.8%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	15.1%	4.6%
Other means	10.1%	1.7%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
1-unit, detached	99.0%	81.5%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	6.4%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	10.5%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	1.3%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	1.0%	0.4%

Poverty & households

	Greenwood	Sugar Creek
Poverty rate	2.5%	10.7%
Average household size	2.73	2.45
Mean commute (minutes)	28	26
Median year structure built	1995	1953