Cedar Lake, IN: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Cedar Lake in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 14.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Cedar Lake

13 miles from Cedar Lake, straight-line, sits Hobart, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cedar Lake's own suburban edge band.

Hobart, IN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Cedar Lake compares nationally

Cedar Lake, IN counts roughly 16,404 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Cedar Lake places 470 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.