BAH 2026Military housing area NC180
Durham/Chapel Hill, NC BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Durham/Chapel Hill, NC military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 28 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,118a monthtied for 156th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,770a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,517a month173rd highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 28in this DoD area
Durham/Chapel Hill, NC pays $2,118 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 156th 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 NC180. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,995 | $1,602 |
| E‑2 | $1,995 | $1,602 |
| E‑3 | $1,995 | $1,602 |
| E‑4 | $1,995 | $1,602 |
| E‑5 | $2,118 | $1,770 |
| E‑6 | $2,391 | $1,878 |
| E‑7 | $2,436 | $1,998 |
| E‑8 | $2,484 | $2,178 |
| E‑9 | $2,631 | $2,250 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,409 | $1,965 |
| W‑2 | $2,454 | $2,175 |
| W‑3 | $2,520 | $2,262 |
| W‑4 | $2,673 | $2,394 |
| W‑5 | $2,868 | $2,445 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,439 | $2,115 |
| O‑2E | $2,508 | $2,235 |
| O‑3E | $2,703 | $2,382 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,160 | $1,869 |
| O‑2 | $2,388 | $2,082 |
| O‑3 | $2,517 | $2,289 |
| O‑4 | $2,931 | $2,430 |
| O‑5 | $3,231 | $2,451 |
| O‑6 | $3,258 | $2,496 |
| O‑7 | $3,279 | $2,538 |
| O‑8† | $3,279 | $2,538 |
| O‑9† | $3,279 | $2,538 |
| O‑10† | $3,279 | $2,538 |
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 28 ZIP codes in Durham/Chapel Hill, NC (NC180). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 27231, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 28 ZIP codesAll 28 ZIP codes
- 272xx
- 27231 27243 27278
- 275xx
- 27503 27509 27510 27514 27515 27516 27517 27572 27599
- 277xx
- 27701 27702 27703 27704 27705 27706 27707 27708 27709 27710 27711 27712 27713 27715 27717 27722
Other areas in North Carolina
Areas whose DoD code starts with NC, 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.