BAH 2026Military housing area LA118
Lafayette, LA BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Lafayette, LA military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 30 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,584a monthtied for 264th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,245a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,040a monthtied for 276th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 30in this DoD area
Lafayette, LA pays $1,584 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 264th 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 LA118. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,449 | $1,140 |
| E‑2 | $1,449 | $1,140 |
| E‑3 | $1,449 | $1,140 |
| E‑4 | $1,449 | $1,140 |
| E‑5 | $1,584 | $1,245 |
| E‑6 | $1,845 | $1,380 |
| E‑7 | $1,914 | $1,452 |
| E‑8 | $1,992 | $1,641 |
| E‑9 | $2,112 | $1,710 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $1,860 | $1,413 |
| W‑2 | $1,944 | $1,638 |
| W‑3 | $2,043 | $1,722 |
| W‑4 | $2,139 | $1,854 |
| W‑5 | $2,262 | $1,929 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $1,926 | $1,581 |
| O‑2E | $2,025 | $1,695 |
| O‑3E | $2,157 | $1,833 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,623 | $1,311 |
| O‑2 | $1,842 | $1,542 |
| O‑3 | $2,040 | $1,746 |
| O‑4 | $2,298 | $1,911 |
| O‑5 | $2,484 | $1,950 |
| O‑6 | $2,502 | $2,019 |
| O‑7 | $2,517 | $2,052 |
| O‑8† | $2,517 | $2,052 |
| O‑9† | $2,517 | $2,052 |
| O‑10† | $2,517 | $2,052 |
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 30 ZIP codes in Lafayette, LA (LA118). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 70380, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 30 ZIP codesAll 30 ZIP codes
- 703xx
- 70380
- 705xx
- 70501 70502 70503 70504 70505 70506 70507 70508 70509 70513 70517 70518 70519 70520 70521 70529 70544 70552 70558 70560 70562 70563 70569 70582 70583 70592 70593 70596 70598
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.