BAH 2026Military housing area VA297
Hampton/Newport News, VA BAH 2026
DoD’s 2026 housing allowance for every pay grade in the Hampton/Newport News, VA military housing area, with and without dependents, and the 69 ZIP codes it covers.
On this page5 sections
- E‑5 with dependents
- $2,274a month129th highest of 338
- E‑5 without dependents
- $1,779a month
- O‑3 with dependents
- $2,475a monthtied for 182nd highest of 338
- ZIP codes
- 69in this DoD area
Hampton/Newport News, VA pays $2,274 a month for an E‑5 with dependents: the 129th 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 VA297. E‑1 to E‑4 with dependents share one rate here.
| Grade | With dependents | Without dependents |
|---|---|---|
| Enlisted | ||
| E‑1 | $2,082 | $1,599 |
| E‑2 | $2,082 | $1,599 |
| E‑3 | $2,082 | $1,599 |
| E‑4 | $2,082 | $1,599 |
| E‑5 | $2,274 | $1,779 |
| E‑6 | $2,421 | $1,905 |
| E‑7 | $2,439 | $2,088 |
| E‑8 | $2,457 | $2,310 |
| E‑9 | $2,571 | $2,343 |
| Warrant officers | ||
| W‑1 | $2,436 | $2,022 |
| W‑2 | $2,445 | $2,307 |
| W‑3 | $2,478 | $2,349 |
| W‑4 | $2,610 | $2,415 |
| W‑5 | $2,778 | $2,439 |
| Officers with over 4 years of enlisted or warrant service | ||
| O‑1E | $2,442 | $2,271 |
| O‑2E | $2,466 | $2,334 |
| O‑3E | $2,637 | $2,409 |
| Officers | ||
| O‑1 | $2,301 | $1,884 |
| O‑2 | $2,418 | $2,214 |
| O‑3 | $2,475 | $2,361 |
| O‑4 | $2,835 | $2,427 |
| O‑5 | $3,099 | $2,442 |
| O‑6 | $3,123 | $2,451 |
| O‑7 | $3,144 | $2,493 |
| O‑8† | $3,144 | $2,493 |
| O‑9† | $3,144 | $2,493 |
| O‑10† | $3,144 | $2,493 |
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 69 ZIP codes in Hampton/Newport News, VA (VA297). The BAH calculator looks up any of them and can compare up to three; the buttons below open it at 23665, the ZIP of Joint Base Langley-Eustis, or at a ZIP the check below finds in this area.
Show all 69 ZIP codesAll 69 ZIP codes
- 230xx
- 23001 23003 23018 23021 23025 23035 23045 23050 23056 23061 23062 23064 23066 23068 23072 23076 23081 23090
- 231xx
- 23107 23109 23119 23125 23127 23128 23130 23131 23138 23154 23155 23163 23168 23178 23183 23184 23185 23186 23187 23188 23190
- 236xx
- 23601 23602 23603 23604 23605 23606 23607 23608 23609 23612 23628 23630 23651 23661 23662 23663 23664 23665 23666 23667 23668 23669 23670 23681 23690 23691 23692 23693 23694 23696
Installations whose address is in this area
Military OneSource lists these installations at a ZIP code in VA297; the ZIP shown is the one in each installation’s main contact address.
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.