BAH 2026Military housing area AL004
Mobile, AL BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Mobile, AL military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 78 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,887a monthtied for 201st highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,473a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,202a monthtied for 244th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 78in this DoD area
Mobile, AL pays $1,887 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 201st highest of 338 areas. The lowest is Anniston/Fort McClellan, AL at $1,185, the highest San Francisco, CA at $5,127. The three ticks split the 338 areas into four equal groups, at $1,626, $2,064, $2,580.
Monthly BAH by grade, 2026
The 2026 rates for each grade, in whole dollars a month, exactly as DoD’s file lists them for AL004. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,731 | $1,302 |
| E‑2 | $1,731 | $1,302 |
| E‑3 | $1,731 | $1,302 |
| E‑4 | $1,731 | $1,302 |
| E‑5 | $1,887 | $1,473 |
| E‑6 | $2,073 | $1,587 |
| E‑7 | $2,118 | $1,734 |
| E‑8 | $2,169 | $1,929 |
| E‑9 | $2,286 | $1,974 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,091 | $1,689 |
| W‑2 | $2,139 | $1,926 |
| W‑3 | $2,205 | $1,983 |
| W‑4 | $2,319 | $2,076 |
| W‑5 | $2,463 | $2,127 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,124 | $1,884 |
| O‑2E | $2,193 | $1,965 |
| O‑3E | $2,340 | $2,064 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,917 | $1,572 |
| O‑2 | $2,070 | $1,839 |
| O‑3 | $2,202 | $2,001 |
| O‑4 | $2,508 | $2,112 |
| O‑5 | $2,730 | $2,136 |
| O‑6 | $2,751 | $2,181 |
| O‑7 | $2,766 | $2,217 |
| O‑8† | $2,766 | $2,217 |
| O‑9† | $2,766 | $2,217 |
| O‑10† | $2,766 | $2,217 |
E‑5, the grade in the summary above, is highlighted. † DoD’s file has three columns after O‑7, equal to O‑7 in every area; DoD labels its columns only through O‑7, so they are read here as O‑8 to O‑10.
ZIP codes in this area
DoD’s 2026 file puts these 78 ZIP codes in Mobile, AL (AL004). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 36505, one ZIP in this area, or at a ZIP the check below finds in this area.
Show all 78 ZIP codesAll 78 ZIP codes
- 365xx
- 36505 36507 36509 36511 36512 36521 36522 36523 36525 36526 36527 36528 36530 36532 36533 36535 36536 36541 36542 36544 36547 36549 36550 36551 36555 36559 36560 36561 36562 36564 36567 36568 36571 36572 36574 36575 36576 36577 36578 36579 36580 36582 36587 36590
- 366xx
- 36601 36602 36603 36604 36605 36606 36607 36608 36609 36610 36611 36612 36613 36615 36616 36617 36618 36619 36628 36633 36640 36644 36652 36660 36663 36670 36671 36675 36685 36688 36689 36691 36693 36695
Other areas in Alabama
Areas whose DoD code starts with AL, with the E‑5 with-dependents rate for 2026.
How these rates work
- BAH depends on the area, the pay grade and whether the member has dependents; every rate here is a whole-dollar cell of DoD’s 2026 file (BAH-ASCII-2026.zip), not an estimate.
- Rate protection (37 U.S.C. 403(b)(6)): So long as a member retains uninterrupted eligibility for BAH within an area of the United States, the monthly allowance may not be reduced as a result of changes in housing costs in the area or the member’s promotion. This page can’t know a protected rate; the Leave and Earnings Statement shows it.
- ZIP codes outside DoD’s file, and the 214 ZIP codes DoD’s file assigns to XX499 (“UNKNOWN”), have no area page.
Sources
Checked against DoD’s file on October 13, 2026. The data page lists every file’s checksum: BAH data.