Tarboro, NC: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Tarboro in the suburban edge band. 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 36% 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 Tarboro

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

Clayton, 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 Tarboro compares nationally

About 10,954 people live in Tarboro, NC, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Tarboro places 1,148 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.