Hackensack, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Hackensack's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Hackensack's sky is brighter than 98.4% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Hackensack

Maywood, NJ, about 1 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Hackensack. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Maywood, 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 Hackensack compares nationally

About 46,630 people live in Hackensack, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Hackensack places 3,137 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.