BAH 2026Military housing area TX279
El Paso, TX BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the El Paso, TX military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 144 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page5 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $1,809a monthtied for 220th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,437a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,202a monthtied for 244th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 144in this DoD area
El Paso, TX pays $1,809 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the tied for 220th 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 TX279. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $1,665 | $1,302 |
| E‑2 | $1,665 | $1,302 |
| E‑3 | $1,665 | $1,302 |
| E‑4 | $1,665 | $1,302 |
| E‑5 | $1,809 | $1,437 |
| E‑6 | $2,148 | $1,611 |
| E‑7 | $2,172 | $1,668 |
| E‑8 | $2,187 | $1,881 |
| E‑9 | $2,241 | $1,977 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,169 | $1,626 |
| W‑2 | $2,178 | $1,878 |
| W‑3 | $2,205 | $1,992 |
| W‑4 | $2,256 | $2,148 |
| W‑5 | $2,334 | $2,169 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,175 | $1,806 |
| O‑2E | $2,196 | $1,956 |
| O‑3E | $2,268 | $2,142 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $1,857 | $1,518 |
| O‑2 | $2,145 | $1,764 |
| O‑3 | $2,202 | $2,022 |
| O‑4 | $2,352 | $2,157 |
| O‑5 | $2,466 | $2,172 |
| O‑6 | $2,484 | $2,178 |
| O‑7 | $2,496 | $2,214 |
| O‑8† | $2,496 | $2,214 |
| O‑9† | $2,496 | $2,214 |
| O‑10† | $2,496 | $2,214 |
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 144 ZIP codes in El Paso, TX (TX279). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 79916, the ZIP of Fort Bliss, or at a ZIP the check below finds in this area.
Show all 144 ZIP codesAll 144 ZIP codes
- 798xx
- 79821 79835 79836 79838 79849 79853
- 799xx
- 79901 79902 79903 79904 79905 79906 79907 79908 79910 79911 79912 79913 79914 79915 79916 79917 79918 79920 79922 79923 79924 79925 79926 79927 79928 79929 79930 79931 79932 79934 79935 79936 79937 79938 79940 79941 79942 79943 79944 79945 79946 79947 79948 79949 79950 79951 79952 79953 79954 79955 79958 79960 79961 79968 79976 79978 79980 79995 79996 79997 79998 79999
- 885xx
- 88510 88511 88512 88513 88514 88515 88517 88518 88519 88520 88521 88523 88524 88525 88526 88527 88528 88529 88530 88531 88532 88533 88534 88535 88536 88538 88539 88540 88541 88542 88543 88544 88545 88546 88547 88548 88549 88550 88553 88554 88555 88556 88557 88558 88559 88560 88561 88562 88563 88565 88566 88567 88568 88569 88570 88571 88572 88573 88574 88575 88576 88577 88578 88579 88580 88581 88582 88583 88584 88585 88586 88587 88588 88589 88590 88595
Installations whose address is in this area
Military OneSource lists these installations at a ZIP code in TX279; the ZIP shown is the one in each installation’s main contact address.
Other areas in Texas
Areas whose DoD code starts with TX, with the E‑5 with-dependents rate for 2026.
- Abilene/Dyess AFB, TX$1,872
- Austin, TX$2,241
- Beaumont, TX$1,518
- Brownsville, TX$1,503
- College Station, TX$1,758
- Corpus Christi, TX$1,788
- Dallas, TX$2,469
- El Paso, TX$1,809
- Fort Hood, TX$1,695
- Fort Worth, TX$2,118
- Goodfellow AFB, TX$1,578
- Houston, TX$2,193
- Laughlin AFB/Del Rio, TX$1,470
- Lubbock, TX$1,476
- San Antonio, TX$1,869
- Waco, TX$1,755
- Wichita Fls/Sheppard AFB, TX$1,491
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.