Guides · 26 August 2026 · 7 min read

How to Remove My Address From Google

A step-by-step guide to removing your home address from Google Search, from the results removal tool to the data broker pages behind the listing.

To remove your address from Google, you need to do two separate things: ask Google to hide the result, and get the source page that published your address to remove it. Google Search is an index. It shows what other websites publish. If your address appears in the results, a website somewhere is hosting it, and that site is what Google is reading.

Google offers a tool that removes results containing personal contact information, including a home address. This can pull the listing out of search quickly. But if the underlying page stays online, the address can be re-indexed later. So the durable fix is to remove or suppress both.

Step one: use Google's results removal tool

Google has a dedicated process for taking down search results that expose personal contact details such as a home address, phone number or email. You submit the URLs you want removed and explain that they contain your personal contact information.

1. Search your own name in Google. Try variations: full name, name plus your town, name plus your street. Note which results show your address.
2. Open each result to confirm your address is actually on the page and that it is you.
3. Copy the full URL of each page that displays your address.
4. Go to Google's Results about you tool, or search for "Google remove personal information from search" to reach the current request form.
5. Choose the option for content that shows your personal contact information, and paste in the URLs.
6. Submit the request and keep the confirmation. You can track the status inside the same tool.

Google reviews each request. If it agrees the content is personal contact information, it can remove the result or limit it to searches that do not include your name. This affects Google Search only. It does not delete the page, and it does not touch other search engines.

Step two: find the website behind the listing

Removing a Google result does not remove the data. The page that published your address is still live. In most cases, that page belongs to a data broker or people-search site. These companies collect addresses from public records, marketing databases and other feeds, then publish profiles that anyone can look up.

Work through your list of URLs and identify who owns each one. The site name is usually in the address bar. For each source, you have to go to that specific site and ask it to remove or suppress your record.

How to opt out of a people-search site

1. On the broker's website, look for a link labelled something like Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Privacy, Opt Out or Suppression. It is usually in the footer.
2. Find your own profile on the site first. Many opt-out forms ask you to paste the URL of the exact listing you want removed.
3. Follow the site's process. Some ask only for the profile URL. Others ask for an email address to send a confirmation link.
4. Complete any confirmation step. If they email you a link, click it, or the request may not proceed.
5. Record the date and the site name so you can check later whether the listing came back.

Repeat this for every broker on your list. There is no single form that covers all of them. Each company runs its own database and its own opt-out.

What about public records

Some addresses on Google come from records that are public by law. Property ownership records, court filings, corporate registrations and voter rolls are examples. These cannot be deleted. The government body publishes them, and they are meant to be open.

You may still be able to remove the copy that a broker published, even when the original record stays public. The broker's profile and the government record are two different things. Opting out of the broker removes their version. The underlying public record remains where it always was.

If a state or council offers an address confidentiality programme, for example for people at risk of harm, that is a separate process handled by that authority, not by Google.

Be honest about how long this lasts

Removal is not permanent. Data brokers rebuild their records constantly from upstream feeds. Even after a successful opt-out, the same company can repopulate your profile from a new data source, and listings typically reappear within a few months. When they do, you submit the opt-out again.

This is why address removal is maintenance, not a one-off task. Plan to re-check your name in Google every few months and repeat the steps for anything that has returned.

A realistic workflow

Here is the whole process in order, so you can finish it in one sitting and then schedule the follow-up.

1. Search your name and note every result that shows your address.
2. Submit those URLs to Google's results removal tool.
3. For each URL, identify the website and go to its opt-out page.
4. Complete the opt-out on each broker, confirming by email where required.
5. Note which results came from public records. Accept those originals cannot be deleted, but opt out of any broker copy.
6. Set a reminder to repeat the search in a few months.

Doing it automatically

The manual method works, but it is slow and it comes back around. There are many brokers, each with a different form, and the same profiles reappear on a rolling basis. Vanish is a Mac app that finds where brokers have published your details and sends CCPA deletion demands for you, then keeps checking as listings return. It does the same work described here, without you filling in each form by hand. Whether you use it or not, the steps above are the same ones that get an address out of Google.