Pleasant Hill, IA: how dark is the sky here?

Pleasant Hill reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 80.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pleasant Hill.

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 Pleasant Hill

Norwalk, IA, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Pleasant Hill. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Pleasant Hill compares nationally

About 11,942 people live in Pleasant Hill, IA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Pleasant Hill places 2,576 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.