diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
index 4d1abf1e62..ec69a04019 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ As of version `1.26.0` of this chart, by simply not providing any clusterIP valu
 | defaultBackend.livenessProbe.periodSeconds | int | `10` |  |
 | defaultBackend.livenessProbe.successThreshold | int | `1` |  |
 | defaultBackend.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds | int | `5` |  |
-| defaultBackend.minAvailable | int | `1` |  |
+| defaultBackend.minAvailable | int | `1` | Minimum available pods set in PodDisruptionBudget. |
 | defaultBackend.minReadySeconds | int | `0` | `minReadySeconds` to avoid killing pods before we are ready # |
 | defaultBackend.name | string | `"defaultbackend"` |  |
 | defaultBackend.networkPolicy.enabled | bool | `false` | Enable 'networkPolicy' or not |
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/default-backend-poddisruptionbudget.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/default-backend-poddisruptionbudget.yaml
index f869e4530d..c8363fd4b4 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/default-backend-poddisruptionbudget.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/default-backend-poddisruptionbudget.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 {{- if .Values.defaultBackend.enabled -}}
-{{- if or (gt (.Values.defaultBackend.replicaCount | int) 1) (gt (.Values.defaultBackend.autoscaling.minReplicas | int) 1) }}
+{{- $replicas := .Values.defaultBackend.replicaCount }}
+{{- if .Values.defaultBackend.autoscaling.enabled }}
+{{- $replicas = .Values.defaultBackend.autoscaling.minReplicas }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- if gt ($replicas | int) 1 }}
 apiVersion: {{ ternary "policy/v1" "policy/v1beta1" (semverCompare ">=1.21.0-0" .Capabilities.KubeVersion.Version) }}
 kind: PodDisruptionBudget
 metadata:
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/tests/default-backend-poddisruptionbudget_test.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/tests/default-backend-poddisruptionbudget_test.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0958018620
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/tests/default-backend-poddisruptionbudget_test.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+suite: Default Backend > PodDisruptionBudget
+templates:
+  - default-backend-poddisruptionbudget.yaml
+
+tests:
+  - it: should create a PodDisruptionBudget if `defaultBackend.replicaCount` is greater than 1
+    set:
+      defaultBackend.enabled: true
+      defaultBackend.replicaCount: 2
+    asserts:
+      - hasDocuments:
+          count: 1
+      - isKind:
+          of: PodDisruptionBudget
+      - equal:
+          path: metadata.name
+          value: RELEASE-NAME-ingress-nginx-defaultbackend
+
+  - it: should not create a PodDisruptionBudget if `defaultBackend.replicaCount` is less than or equal 1
+    set:
+      defaultBackend.enabled: true
+      defaultBackend.replicaCount: 1
+    asserts:
+      - hasDocuments:
+          count: 0
+
+  - it: should create a PodDisruptionBudget if `defaultBackend.autoscaling.enabled` is true and `defaultBackend.autoscaling.minReplicas` is greater than 1
+    set:
+      defaultBackend.enabled: true
+      defaultBackend.autoscaling.enabled: true
+      defaultBackend.autoscaling.minReplicas: 2
+    asserts:
+      - hasDocuments:
+          count: 1
+      - isKind:
+          of: PodDisruptionBudget
+      - equal:
+          path: metadata.name
+          value: RELEASE-NAME-ingress-nginx-defaultbackend
+
+  - it: should not create a PodDisruptionBudget if `defaultBackend.autoscaling.enabled` is true and `defaultBackend.autoscaling.minReplicas` is less than or equal 1
+    set:
+      defaultBackend.enabled: true
+      defaultBackend.autoscaling.enabled: true
+      defaultBackend.autoscaling.minReplicas: 1
+    asserts:
+      - hasDocuments:
+          count: 0
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
index ee497213fc..e347da54e4 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
@@ -1004,6 +1004,7 @@ defaultBackend:
   ##
   podAnnotations: {}
   replicaCount: 1
+  # -- Minimum available pods set in PodDisruptionBudget.
   minAvailable: 1
   resources: {}
   # limits: