Lafayette, IN: how dark is the sky here?

Lafayette reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 96.8% 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 Lafayette

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is West Lafayette, IN, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

West Lafayette, 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 Lafayette compares nationally

About 71,757 people live in Lafayette, IN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lafayette places 3,085 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.