BAH 2026Military housing area TN267
Knoxville, TN BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Knoxville, TN military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 54 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,184a monthtied for 143rd highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,809a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,904a month112th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 54in this DoD area
Knoxville, TN pays $2,184 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 143rd 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 TN267. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $2,058 | $1,599 |
| E‑2 | $2,058 | $1,599 |
| E‑3 | $2,058 | $1,599 |
| E‑4 | $2,058 | $1,599 |
| E‑5 | $2,184 | $1,809 |
| E‑6 | $2,649 | $1,986 |
| E‑7 | $2,745 | $2,061 |
| E‑8 | $2,844 | $2,283 |
| E‑9 | $3,000 | $2,418 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,670 | $2,028 |
| W‑2 | $2,784 | $2,280 |
| W‑3 | $2,907 | $2,436 |
| W‑4 | $3,036 | $2,667 |
| W‑5 | $3,195 | $2,766 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,760 | $2,181 |
| O‑2E | $2,889 | $2,388 |
| O‑3E | $3,060 | $2,643 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,247 | $1,929 |
| O‑2 | $2,646 | $2,148 |
| O‑3 | $2,904 | $2,481 |
| O‑4 | $3,243 | $2,742 |
| O‑5 | $3,492 | $2,796 |
| O‑6 | $3,519 | $2,886 |
| O‑7 | $3,543 | $2,934 |
| O‑8† | $3,543 | $2,934 |
| O‑9† | $3,543 | $2,934 |
| O‑10† | $3,543 | $2,934 |
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 54 ZIP codes in Knoxville, TN (TN267). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 37701, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 54 ZIP codesAll 54 ZIP codes
- 377xx
- 37701 37705 37710 37716 37717 37721 37737 37754 37769 37777
- 378xx
- 37801 37802 37803 37804 37806 37828 37830 37831 37849 37853 37878 37882 37886
- 379xx
- 37901 37902 37909 37912 37914 37915 37916 37917 37918 37919 37920 37921 37922 37923 37924 37927 37928 37929 37930 37931 37932 37933 37934 37938 37939 37940 37950 37995 37996 37997 37998
Other areas in Tennessee
Areas whose DoD code starts with TN, 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.