Totowa, NJ Night Sky Brightness
Totowa, NJ: how dark is the sky here?
Totowa's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Totowa's sky is brighter than 64.1% 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
How far Totowa is from a meaningfully darker sky
Glen Rock, NJ, about 6 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Totowa. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Glen Rock, 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 Totowa compares nationally
Totowa, NJ has a population of about 11,064, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Totowa places 2,045 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.