BAH 2026Military housing area SC259
Charleston, SC BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Charleston, SC military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 59 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page5 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,385a month112th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,941a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,721a month143rd highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 59in this DoD area
Charleston, SC pays $2,385 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 112th 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 SC259. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $2,220 | $1,755 |
| E‑2 | $2,220 | $1,755 |
| E‑3 | $2,220 | $1,755 |
| E‑4 | $2,220 | $1,755 |
| E‑5 | $2,385 | $1,941 |
| E‑6 | $2,616 | $2,064 |
| E‑7 | $2,652 | $2,223 |
| E‑8 | $2,694 | $2,439 |
| E‑9 | $2,769 | $2,496 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,634 | $2,172 |
| W‑2 | $2,667 | $2,436 |
| W‑3 | $2,724 | $2,508 |
| W‑4 | $2,790 | $2,619 |
| W‑5 | $2,880 | $2,661 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,655 | $2,382 |
| O‑2E | $2,712 | $2,484 |
| O‑3E | $2,802 | $2,607 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,421 | $2,049 |
| O‑2 | $2,613 | $2,334 |
| O‑3 | $2,721 | $2,529 |
| O‑4 | $2,904 | $2,646 |
| O‑5 | $3,039 | $2,664 |
| O‑6 | $3,060 | $2,697 |
| O‑7 | $3,081 | $2,742 |
| O‑8† | $3,081 | $2,742 |
| O‑9† | $3,081 | $2,742 |
| O‑10† | $3,081 | $2,742 |
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 59 ZIP codes in Charleston, SC (SC259). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 29404, the ZIP of Joint Base Charleston.
Show all 59 ZIP codesAll 59 ZIP codes
- 294xx
- 29401 29402 29403 29404 29405 29406 29407 29409 29410 29412 29413 29414 29415 29416 29417 29418 29419 29420 29422 29423 29424 29425 29426 29429 29431 29434 29436 29437 29439 29445 29447 29448 29449 29450 29451 29453 29455 29456 29457 29458 29461 29464 29465 29466 29468 29469 29470 29471 29472 29476 29477 29479 29482 29483 29484 29485 29486 29487 29492
Installations whose address is in this area
Military OneSource lists these installations at a ZIP code in SC259; the ZIP shown is the one in each installation’s main contact address.
Other areas in South Carolina
Areas whose DoD code starts with SC, 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.