C172 pilot reported an near midair collision during departure with and aircraft departing an airport...

Narrative:

While doing takeoff and landings at ZZZ; I had just turned crosswind climbing off of runway xx; reaching pattern altitude I pushed the nose to level out and saw 4 aircraft coming at me head on. I pitched and turned left since the other aircraft were approaching from the right. They had departed from ZZZ1 which is 2 miles east and also has left traffic to runway xx because of the close proximity. I was making normal radio position reports in the pattern; I did not hear any radio reports from that formation until after the incident someone said 172 in the pattern say your intentions; I replayed I was staying in the pattern at ZZZ and they should announce their intentions to enter the pattern. I landed and parked the aircraft. I talked to ZZZ1 tower later and he said he was watching as it happened though he has no control.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 pilot reported an NMAC during departure with and aircraft departing an airport in close proximity.

Narrative: While doing takeoff and landings at ZZZ; I had just turned crosswind climbing off of Runway XX; reaching pattern altitude I pushed the nose to level out and saw 4 aircraft coming at me head on. I pitched and turned left since the other aircraft were approaching from the right. They had departed from ZZZ1 which is 2 miles east and also has left traffic to Runway XX because of the close proximity. I was making normal radio position reports in the pattern; I did not hear any radio reports from that formation until after the incident someone said 172 in the pattern say your intentions; I replayed I was staying in the pattern at ZZZ and they should announce their intentions to enter the pattern. I landed and parked the aircraft. I talked to ZZZ1 Tower later and he said he was watching as it happened though he has no control.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1708145
Time
Date	201912
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 17 Flight Crew Total 1345 Flight Crew Type 306
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200 Vertical 10

C172 pilot reported an near midair collision during departure with and aircraft departing an airport in close proximity.