BAH 2026Military housing area LA115
Fort Polk, LA BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Fort Polk, LA military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 35 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page5 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,218a month334th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,128a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $1,938a monthtied for 305th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 35in this DoD area
Fort Polk, LA pays $1,218 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 334th 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 LA115. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,206 | $1,026 |
| E‑2 | $1,206 | $1,026 |
| E‑3 | $1,206 | $1,026 |
| E‑4 | $1,206 | $1,026 |
| E‑5 | $1,218 | $1,128 |
| E‑6 | $1,833 | $1,374 |
| E‑7 | $1,872 | $1,404 |
| E‑8 | $1,911 | $1,434 |
| E‑9 | $1,989 | $1,527 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $1,854 | $1,392 |
| W‑2 | $1,887 | $1,416 |
| W‑3 | $1,941 | $1,551 |
| W‑4 | $2,010 | $1,839 |
| W‑5 | $2,100 | $1,881 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $1,875 | $1,410 |
| O‑2E | $1,929 | $1,488 |
| O‑3E | $2,022 | $1,827 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,296 | $1,191 |
| O‑2 | $1,827 | $1,407 |
| O‑3 | $1,938 | $1,611 |
| O‑4 | $2,124 | $1,866 |
| O‑5 | $2,262 | $1,884 |
| O‑6 | $2,277 | $1,917 |
| O‑7 | $2,289 | $1,947 |
| O‑8† | $2,289 | $1,947 |
| O‑9† | $2,289 | $1,947 |
| O‑10† | $2,289 | $1,947 |
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 35 ZIP codes in Fort Polk, LA (LA115). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 71459, the ZIP of Fort Polk.
Show all 35 ZIP codesAll 35 ZIP codes
- 706xx
- 70634 70637 70639 70652 70653 70656 70657 70659 70660 70662
- 710xx
- 71002 71031 71066
- 714xx
- 71403 71411 71414 71416 71428 71434 71439 71443 71446 71450 71452 71456 71457 71458 71459 71461 71468 71469 71474 71475 71496 71497
Installations whose address is in this area
Military OneSource lists these installations at a ZIP code in LA115; the ZIP shown is the one in each installation’s main contact address.
Other areas in Louisiana
Areas whose DoD code starts with LA, 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.