University Heights, OH: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts University Heights in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 90.5% 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.

How far University Heights is from a meaningfully darker sky

1 miles from University Heights, straight-line, sits Shaker Heights, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than University Heights's own urban band.

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

How University Heights compares nationally

University Heights, OH has a population of about 13,265, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. University Heights places 2,886 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.