BAH 2026Military housing area PA252
State College, PA BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the State College, PA military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 31 ZIP codes it covers.
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- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,791a month226th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,443a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,580a monthtied for 162nd highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 31in this DoD area
State College, PA pays $1,791 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 226th 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 PA252. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,656 | $1,329 |
| E‑2 | $1,656 | $1,329 |
| E‑3 | $1,656 | $1,329 |
| E‑4 | $1,656 | $1,329 |
| E‑5 | $1,791 | $1,443 |
| E‑6 | $2,274 | $1,707 |
| E‑7 | $2,388 | $1,791 |
| E‑8 | $2,508 | $1,893 |
| E‑9 | $2,679 | $2,034 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,295 | $1,722 |
| W‑2 | $2,436 | $1,890 |
| W‑3 | $2,583 | $2,052 |
| W‑4 | $2,715 | $2,298 |
| W‑5 | $2,877 | $2,412 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,406 | $1,806 |
| O‑2E | $2,562 | $2,001 |
| O‑3E | $2,739 | $2,268 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,854 | $1,515 |
| O‑2 | $2,271 | $1,794 |
| O‑3 | $2,580 | $2,097 |
| O‑4 | $2,928 | $2,388 |
| O‑5 | $3,180 | $2,454 |
| O‑6 | $3,207 | $2,562 |
| O‑7 | $3,228 | $2,607 |
| O‑8† | $3,228 | $2,607 |
| O‑9† | $3,228 | $2,607 |
| O‑10† | $3,228 | $2,607 |
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 31 ZIP codes in State College, PA (PA252). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 16677, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 31 ZIP codesAll 31 ZIP codes
- 166xx
- 16677
- 168xx
- 16801 16802 16803 16804 16805 16820 16823 16826 16827 16828 16829 16832 16835 16841 16844 16851 16852 16853 16854 16856 16859 16864 16865 16866 16868 16870 16872 16874 16875 16882
Other areas in Pennsylvania
Areas whose DoD code starts with PA, 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.