BAH 2026Military housing area LA116
New Orleans, LA BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the New Orleans, LA military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 131 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,905a monthtied for 195th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,581a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,553a monthtied for 167th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 131in this DoD area
New Orleans, LA pays $1,905 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 195th 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 LA116. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,779 | $1,473 |
| E‑2 | $1,779 | $1,473 |
| E‑3 | $1,779 | $1,473 |
| E‑4 | $1,779 | $1,473 |
| E‑5 | $1,905 | $1,581 |
| E‑6 | $2,373 | $1,779 |
| E‑7 | $2,439 | $1,830 |
| E‑8 | $2,508 | $2,004 |
| E‑9 | $2,634 | $2,139 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,394 | $1,797 |
| W‑2 | $2,466 | $2,001 |
| W‑3 | $2,556 | $2,157 |
| W‑4 | $2,664 | $2,385 |
| W‑5 | $2,805 | $2,454 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,448 | $1,902 |
| O‑2E | $2,541 | $2,109 |
| O‑3E | $2,688 | $2,367 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,968 | $1,650 |
| O‑2 | $2,370 | $1,866 |
| O‑3 | $2,553 | $2,202 |
| O‑4 | $2,847 | $2,436 |
| O‑5 | $3,060 | $2,472 |
| O‑6 | $3,084 | $2,532 |
| O‑7 | $3,105 | $2,574 |
| O‑8† | $3,105 | $2,574 |
| O‑9† | $3,105 | $2,574 |
| O‑10† | $3,105 | $2,574 |
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 131 ZIP codes in New Orleans, LA (LA116). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 39520, one ZIP in this area, or at a ZIP the check below finds in this area.
Show all 131 ZIP codesAll 131 ZIP codes
- 395xx
- 39520 39522 39529 39572 39576
- 700xx
- 70001 70002 70003 70004 70005 70006 70009 70010 70011 70032 70033 70036 70037 70038 70040 70041 70043 70044 70050 70053 70054 70055 70056 70058 70059 70060 70062 70063 70064 70065 70067 70072 70073 70075 70081 70082 70083 70085 70091 70092 70093 70094 70096 70097
- 701xx
- 70112 70113 70114 70115 70116 70117 70118 70119 70121 70122 70123 70124 70125 70126 70127 70128 70129 70130 70131 70139 70141 70142 70143 70145 70146 70148 70150 70151 70152 70153 70154 70156 70157 70158 70159 70160 70161 70162 70163 70164 70165 70166 70167 70170 70172 70174 70175 70176 70177 70178 70179 70181 70182 70183 70184 70185 70186 70187 70189 70190 70195
- 703xx
- 70358
- 704xx
- 70420 70431 70433 70434 70435 70437 70445 70447 70448 70452 70457 70458 70459 70460 70461 70463 70464 70469 70470 70471
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.