Stallings, NC: how dark is the sky here?

Stallings's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 14.8% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Stallings

7 miles from Stallings, straight-line, sits Weddington, NC, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Stallings's own suburban edge band.

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

How Stallings compares nationally

Stallings, NC has a population of about 17,617, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Stallings places 474 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.