Updated June 2026. Reviewed by Maya Robinson, CPRW.
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, unsure whether your street address still belongs there. The short answer is that the full address is outdated.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.
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 strangers, uploaded to job boards, and parsed into databases you cannot control. Putting 4417 Maple Street on that file serves no purpose, because no employer is mailing you anything.
What recruiters still need is your general location, to confirm a workable time zone, estimate commute for on-site roles, and feed the distance filters some applicant tracking systems use. A city and state line answers all of that. A street number answers none of it any better.
A full street address can also work against you. A specific neighborhood or a long commute can trigger location bias before a human reads a single bullet, so leaving the house number off removes a quiet screen-out you never see.
How to Write Your Address (Location) on a Resume
Replace the street address with a single city and state line in your contact block, next to your phone and email, with no street number, apartment, or zip code. Find your situation in the table below and copy the exact location line.
| Your situation | What to write | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Local on-site job, you live nearby | Phoenix, AZ | Proximity is an advantage; helps ATS distance ranking |
| Fully remote job | Remote, Phoenix, AZ | Employer still needs location for payroll and time zone |
| Relocating to a known city | Relocating to Seattle, WA, Aug 2026 | Avoids an out-of-area screen-out |
| Far from the job, not committed to move | Open to relocation, currently Austin, TX | A distant home city with no context triggers a location filter |
| Applying abroad | Toronto, Canada | City and country is enough |
Where it goes: the location line sits in your contact block at the very top of the resume, on the same row as your phone and email. Here is the exact format to copy:
Phoenix, AZ | (555) 123-4567 | jordan.lee@email.com | linkedin.com/in/jordanlee
Skip the zip code. Recruiters and ATS distance filters work fine on city and state alone, so a zip code only adds exposure with no hiring benefit. The one mistake to avoid in every row is leaving location off entirely, which reads as evasive and can hurt you for local roles where proximity is a plus.
Two addresses (relocating)? Do not list two full addresses. Pick one location line: write your target city if you have a move date, or Open to relocation, currently [your city] if you do not. A second address only clutters the header and confuses the parser.
The Safety Reason Most Guides Skip
A resume is not a private document. It gets forwarded across a hiring team, uploaded to job boards, and stored in ATS databases for months or years, and every copy carries whatever you put on it. A full street address means your home location sits in systems you cannot audit or delete from.
That exposure is not theoretical. The FTC lists a home address among the personal details thieves combine to open accounts or impersonate you, which is reason enough to keep it off a file you hand to strangers. City and state removes the exposure completely at no cost, 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.
