Seymour Johnson Air Force Base: BAH and housing

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is an Air Force base in Goldsboro, North Carolina. An E-5 with dependents receives $1,521 a month in BAH here, the 13th-lowest of the 119 bases we track, $219 less than the $1,740 HUD fair-market rent for a 3-bedroom in ZIP 27534. Goldsboro is a lower-cost market among the bases we cover (30th-lowest of 114): the median home is worth $200,400 and the median rent is $971. Normal daily temperatures run from 53°F to 74°F on average, with 52 inches of precipitation a year.

Data: DTMO 2026 BAH for MHA NC183, HUD rents for ZIP 27534, Census ACS for Goldsboro city, NOAA normals at Goldsboro 4 SE, NC. Jump to sources · Methodology

What is my BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing) at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base?

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

Pay grade

Dependents

$1,428/mo

Monthly BAH at E-5 pay grade without dependents.

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base: $1,428

Typical 2-bedroom rent nearby: $1,450/mo
BAH vs that rent: $22/mo short

Key facts for living at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

Key facts for living at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Host state	North Carolina
State income tax	Flat 3.99%
Top state income-tax rate	3.99%
Average sales tax (state + local)	7.00%
Average property tax (real estate)	0.66%
Personal property tax (vehicles)	Yes — 1.10% effective
Median home value	$339,594
Military housing area	NC183 — SEYMOUR JOHNSON AFB, NC
Climate (annual high / low)	74° / 53°F
Annual precipitation	52.3 in
Official site	Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

More about living in North Carolina

Compare these bases

I am leaving

I am going to

Only destinations that share a service with the origin are listed.

PCS checklist for Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

Update DEERS and your page-2 / dependency status before BAH starts at the new MHA (NC183).
Look up your exact BAH for rank and dependents on the DTMO BAH lookup (ZIP 27531).
Off-base 2-bedroom HUD FMR in Wayne County is $1,244/mo. On-base housing is separate.
Get an NC driver license within 60 days and title the car within 60 days. See North Carolina.
Confirm reporting instructions on the official Seymour Johnson Air Force Base site.

How Seymour Johnson Air Force Base compares

E-5 with-dependents BAH is higher at Hanscom Air Force Base ($4,188 vs $1,521).

Use the picker above for any other compatible installation. Published PCS pages that include Seymour Johnson Air Force Base 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 Seymour Johnson Air Force Base (NC183). Confirm current rates on the DTMO BAH lookup.
2-bedroom Fair Market Rent. HUD FY2026 FMR — Wayne County $1,244.
Off-base ZIP rent (HUD Small Area FMR). FY2026 ZIP 2- and 3-bedroom 40th-percentile rents from the HUD Small Area FMR tables: 27534 (Goldsboro) $1,450 / $1,740.
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 Goldsboro city, North Carolina ($200,400, $971/mo). Owner-reported values, not transaction prices.
Climate normals (1991–2020). NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals — Goldsboro 4 SE, NC (USW00013713).
Host-state wage tax. Statewide listed rates for North Carolina 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 North Carolina. 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 North Carolina. On-base housing is not in this figure.
Vehicle title tax and new-resident clocks. North Carolina motor-vehicle agency (license 60 days, title 60 days; title tax 3.00%). 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 North Carolina. 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 North Carolina. Backdrop for off-base purchase prices; on-base housing and BAH are separate.

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