BAH 2026Military housing area TN353
Johnson City/Kingsport, TN BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Johnson City/Kingsport, TN military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 42 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page4 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,548a monthtied for 273rd highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,287a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,343a month216th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 42in this DoD area
Johnson City/Kingsport, TN pays $1,548 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 273rd 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 TN353. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,467 | $1,125 |
| E‑2 | $1,467 | $1,125 |
| E‑3 | $1,467 | $1,125 |
| E‑4 | $1,467 | $1,125 |
| E‑5 | $1,548 | $1,287 |
| E‑6 | $2,124 | $1,593 |
| E‑7 | $2,205 | $1,653 |
| E‑8 | $2,292 | $1,719 |
| E‑9 | $2,433 | $1,839 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,145 | $1,611 |
| W‑2 | $2,241 | $1,680 |
| W‑3 | $2,346 | $1,860 |
| W‑4 | $2,466 | $2,139 |
| W‑5 | $2,616 | $2,223 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,220 | $1,665 |
| O‑2E | $2,331 | $1,800 |
| O‑3E | $2,490 | $2,118 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,623 | $1,380 |
| O‑2 | $2,118 | $1,656 |
| O‑3 | $2,343 | $1,914 |
| O‑4 | $2,664 | $2,202 |
| O‑5 | $2,895 | $2,247 |
| O‑6 | $2,919 | $2,325 |
| O‑7 | $2,937 | $2,364 |
| O‑8† | $2,937 | $2,364 |
| O‑9† | $2,937 | $2,364 |
| O‑10† | $2,937 | $2,364 |
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 42 ZIP codes in Johnson City/Kingsport, TN (TN353). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 24201, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 42 ZIP codesAll 42 ZIP codes
- 242xx
- 24201 24202 24203 24205 24209
- 376xx
- 37601 37602 37604 37605 37614 37615 37617 37618 37620 37621 37625 37642 37643 37644 37645 37656 37658 37659 37660 37662 37663 37664 37665 37669 37681 37682 37684 37686 37687 37690 37694 37699
- 377xx
- 37711 37731
- 378xx
- 37811 37857 37873
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.