No, you should not put a full street address on a resume in 2026. List only your city and state, for example Austin, TX. That gives recruiters and ATS location filters everything they need while keeping your home address off a document that gets forwarded, uploaded, and stored. Drop your location entirely only if you are relocating and applying nationwide.
You are stuck on the contact line at the top of your resume, cursor blinking, unsure whether your street address still belongs there. It is a small detail that feels weirdly high stakes, because getting it wrong feels like it could either get you filtered out or put your home address in front of strangers. The short answer is that the full address is outdated. What follows is the 2026 rule, what to write instead, and the exact format by job type.
Once your contact line is sorted, the rest of the layout matters too. See our resume templates and examples for clean, ATS-safe formats.
The 2026 Rule on Resume Addresses
The full street address is a holdover from when resumes were mailed. Today a resume is a digital file that gets emailed between people you have never met, uploaded to job boards, and parsed into databases you have no control over. Putting 4417 Maple Street on that file serves no purpose, because no employer is mailing you anything.
What recruiters do still need is your general location. They use it to confirm you are in a workable time zone, to estimate commute for on-site roles, and because some applicant tracking systems rank candidates by distance to the job site. A city and state line answers all of that. A street number answers none of it any better.
What to Put Instead of a Full Address
Replace the street address with a single location line. Here are the exact formats, and they take about 10 seconds to apply.
Remote role: Remote, Austin, TX
Applying abroad: Toronto, Canada
Relocating to a known city: Relocating to Denver, CO, June 2026
Relocating, city undecided: Open to relocation, currently Austin, TX
Place this line in your contact block next to your phone number and email. Do not bury it inside the resume body. The ATS reads the header first.
The Decision Table: Address Format by Job Type
No competitor page gives you a clear answer by situation, they just say "city and state is fine" and stop. Here is the full decision table for the four cases that actually trip people up.
The one mistake to avoid in every row above is leaving location off entirely. A blank location reads as evasive and can hurt you for local roles where proximity is a plus.
The Safety Reason Most Guides Skip
There is a privacy angle competitors rarely mention. A resume is not a private document. It gets forwarded across a hiring team, uploaded to third-party job boards, and stored in ATS databases for months or years. Every copy carries whatever you put on it. A full street address on that file means your home location sits in systems you cannot audit or delete from. City and state removes that exposure completely while costing you nothing, since no employer needs your house number to make a hiring decision.
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For more on getting the structure right, see our guides on the best resume format for ATS and what font to use on a resume.
