East Orange, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts East Orange in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. East Orange's sky is brighter than 97.8% of the 3,206 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.

How far East Orange is from a meaningfully darker sky

5 miles from East Orange, straight-line, sits North Arlington, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than East Orange's own urban band.

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

How East Orange compares nationally

About 71,850 people live in East Orange, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. East Orange places 3,117 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.