BAH 2026Military housing area VA295
Charlottesville, VA BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Charlottesville, VA military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 24 ZIP codes it covers.
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- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,373a monthtied for 114th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $2,034a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $3,045a monthtied for 97th highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 24in this DoD area
Charlottesville, VA 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 VA295. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $2,259 | $1,845 |
| E‑2 | $2,259 | $1,845 |
| E‑3 | $2,259 | $1,845 |
| E‑4 | $2,259 | $1,845 |
| E‑5 | $2,373 | $2,034 |
| E‑6 | $2,715 | $2,151 |
| E‑7 | $2,835 | $2,259 |
| E‑8 | $2,964 | $2,445 |
| E‑9 | $3,129 | $2,541 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,733 | $2,232 |
| W‑2 | $2,889 | $2,442 |
| W‑3 | $3,048 | $2,556 |
| W‑4 | $3,156 | $2,739 |
| W‑5 | $3,291 | $2,865 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,856 | $2,370 |
| O‑2E | $3,024 | $2,520 |
| O‑3E | $3,177 | $2,706 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,421 | $2,142 |
| O‑2 | $2,712 | $2,340 |
| O‑3 | $3,045 | $2,589 |
| O‑4 | $3,333 | $2,838 |
| O‑5 | $3,540 | $2,907 |
| O‑6 | $3,567 | $3,027 |
| O‑7 | $3,594 | $3,081 |
| O‑8† | $3,594 | $3,081 |
| O‑9† | $3,594 | $3,081 |
| O‑10† | $3,594 | $3,081 |
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 24 ZIP codes in Charlottesville, VA (VA295). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 22901, one ZIP in this area.
Show all 24 ZIP codesAll 24 ZIP codes
- 229xx
- 22901 22902 22903 22904 22905 22906 22907 22908 22909 22910 22911 22924 22931 22932 22936 22937 22940 22943 22945 22946 22947 22959 22987
- 245xx
- 24590
Other areas in Virginia
Areas whose DoD code starts with VA, 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.