Fort Leonard Wood: BAH and housing

Fort Leonard Wood is an Army post in St. Robert, Missouri. For an E-5 with dependents, the housing allowance comes to $1,479 a month, the 10th-lowest of the 119 bases we track, $29 more than the $1,450 HUD fair-market rent for a 3-bedroom in ZIP 65584. Homes in St. Robert have a median value of $225,300 (median rent $1,087), which makes it a mid-range market among the bases we cover (76th-highest of 114). Normal daily temperatures run from 44°F to 67°F on average, with 47 inches of precipitation a year.

Data: DTMO 2026 BAH for MHA MO163, HUD rents for ZIP 65584, Census ACS for St. Robert city, NOAA normals at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Jump to sources · Methodology

What is my BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing) at Fort Leonard Wood?

This calculator uses 2026 DTMO (Defense Travel Management Office) rates for selected pay grade and dependent status.

Pay grade

Dependents

$1,290/mo

Monthly BAH at E-5 pay grade without dependents.

Fort Leonard Wood: $1,290

Typical 2-bedroom rent nearby: $1,040/mo
BAH vs that rent: $250/mo left over

Key facts for living at Fort Leonard Wood

Key facts for living at Fort Leonard Wood
Host state	Missouri
State income tax	Top listed rate 4.7%
Top state income-tax rate	4.7%
Average sales tax (state + local)	8.44%
Average property tax (real estate)	0.89%
Personal property tax (vehicles)	Yes — 2.55% effective
Median home value	$267,791
Military housing area	MO163 — FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO
Climate (annual high / low)	67° / 44°F
Annual precipitation	46.8 in
Official site	Fort Leonard Wood

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PCS checklist for Fort Leonard Wood

Update DEERS and your page-2 / dependency status before BAH starts at the new MHA (MO163).
Look up your exact BAH for rank and dependents on the DTMO BAH lookup (ZIP 65473).
Off-base 2-bedroom HUD FMR in Pulaski County is $1,062/mo. On-base housing is separate.
Get an MO driver license within 30 days and title the car within 30 days. See Missouri.
Confirm reporting instructions on the official Fort Leonard Wood site.

How Fort Leonard Wood compares

E-5 with-dependents BAH is higher at Fort Hamilton ($5,070 vs $1,479).

Use the picker above for any other compatible installation. Published PCS pages that include Fort Leonard Wood are listed here.

Sources

Housing figures below are for the installation (MHA, HUD rent, climate). Host-state tax rates are statewide averages — not a tax return. County add-ons can differ, and wage tax on military pay follows legal residence, not the duty station.

BAH (with and without dependents). DTMO CY2026 BAH tables for Fort Leonard Wood (MO163). Confirm current rates on the DTMO BAH lookup.
2-bedroom Fair Market Rent. HUD FY2026 FMR — Pulaski County $1,062.
Off-base ZIP rent (HUD Small Area FMR). FY2026 ZIP 2- and 3-bedroom 40th-percentile rents from the HUD Small Area FMR tables: 65584 (St. Robert) $1,040 / $1,450.
Off-base city home value and rent. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year 2020–2024 tables B25077 (median value of owner-occupied homes) and B25064 (median gross rent) for St. Robert city, Missouri ($225,300, $1,087/mo). Owner-reported values, not transaction prices.
Climate normals (1991–2020). NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals — Fort Leonard Wood, MO (USC00232981).
Host-state wage tax. Statewide listed rates for Missouri from the Tax Foundation 2026 individual income-tax tables. On this page they describe the host state, not automatically the tax on a military LES (legal residence can stay put). BAH is untaxed.
Combined sales tax near the installation. Tax Foundation January 2026 state-and-local sales-tax averages for Missouri. Used as an off-base shopping stand-in; city and county add-ons vary.
Effective property tax if you buy off-base. Tax Foundation 2026 property taxes by state for Missouri. On-base housing is not in this figure.
Vehicle title tax and new-resident clocks. Missouri motor-vehicle agency (license 30 days, title 30 days; title tax 4.22%). These are host-state motor-vehicle rules, not BAH.
Vehicle personal-property tax on the host-state snapshot. WalletHub 2026 vehicle property-tax table for Missouri. This is a statewide car-tax flag, not real-estate tax and not BAH.
Statewide median home value on the host-state snapshot. Experian / Zillow March 2026 state medians for Missouri. Backdrop for off-base purchase prices; on-base housing and BAH are separate.

Data last updated: September 2026. How the data is compiled