Sources

Every BAH rate on Military BAH Rates comes from the Defense Travel Management Office (DTMO), which publishes the official rate files each December. Military BAH Rates is not affiliated with the Department of Defense; rates from DTMO.

Publishers and documents

• DTMO, Basic Allowance for Housing page: www.travel.dod.mil
• DTMO, BAH Rate Lookup (rate files and supplemental documents): www.travel.dod.mil
• DTMO, BAH Primer: media.defense.gov
• DTMO, BAH Fact Sheet: media.defense.gov
• DTMO, Overseas Housing Allowance page: www.travel.dod.mil
• DTMO, temporary BAH increase for Abilene/Dyess AFB (news, May 2026): www.travel.dod.mil
• DoD Financial Management Regulation, Volume 7A, Chapter 26 (Housing Allowances): comptroller.defense.gov
• U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 ZCTA to County Relationship File, tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt (county lists): www2.census.gov

Rates are U.S. government works. How the files are turned into these pages, and how the result is checked against DTMO's own tables, is described on the methodology page.