BAH 2026Military housing area PA255
Allentown/Bethlehem, PA BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Allentown/Bethlehem, PA military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 73 ZIP codes it covers.
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- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,373a monthtied for 114th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $2,001a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,880a monthtied for 113th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 73in this DoD area
Allentown/Bethlehem, PA pays $2,373 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 114th 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 PA255. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $2,259 | $1,749 |
| E‑2 | $2,259 | $1,749 |
| E‑3 | $2,259 | $1,749 |
| E‑4 | $2,259 | $1,749 |
| E‑5 | $2,373 | $2,001 |
| E‑6 | $2,841 | $2,151 |
| E‑7 | $2,865 | $2,262 |
| E‑8 | $2,874 | $2,472 |
| E‑9 | $2,955 | $2,607 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,862 | $2,232 |
| W‑2 | $2,871 | $2,469 |
| W‑3 | $2,883 | $2,625 |
| W‑4 | $2,991 | $2,838 |
| W‑5 | $3,156 | $2,850 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,868 | $2,370 |
| O‑2E | $2,877 | $2,577 |
| O‑3E | $3,015 | $2,835 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,436 | $2,142 |
| O‑2 | $2,835 | $2,340 |
| O‑3 | $2,880 | $2,670 |
| O‑4 | $3,207 | $2,841 |
| O‑5 | $3,465 | $2,853 |
| O‑6 | $3,492 | $2,856 |
| O‑7 | $3,516 | $2,883 |
| O‑8† | $3,516 | $2,883 |
| O‑9† | $3,516 | $2,883 |
| O‑10† | $3,516 | $2,883 |
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 73 ZIP codes in Allentown/Bethlehem, PA (PA255). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 18001, one ZIP in this area, or at a ZIP the check below finds in this area.
Show all 73 ZIP codesAll 73 ZIP codes
- 180xx
- 18001 18002 18003 18005 18011 18013 18014 18015 18016 18017 18018 18020 18031 18032 18034 18035 18036 18037 18038 18040 18042 18043 18044 18045 18046 18049 18051 18052 18053 18055 18056 18059 18060 18062 18063 18064 18065 18066 18067 18068 18069 18072 18078 18079 18080 18083 18085 18086 18087 18088 18091 18092 18098 18099
- 181xx
- 18101 18102 18103 18104 18105 18106 18109 18195
- 183xx
- 18301 18302 18322 18327 18335 18343 18351 18353 18354 18356 18360
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.