To get your home address off a people-search site, you find each listing that shows it, send that site an opt-out request through its own form or privacy address, and then re-check the live page. There is no single request that covers every site. Property-lookup sites that work from public property records are a separate case: the site can be asked to stop showing your listing, but a request to a website cannot change a public record held by a government office. "Remove" in this guide always means ask to remove — each site decides what to do with your request.
Where your address shows up
- People-search profiles list current and past addresses next to your name, phone number and relatives. Examples: Whitepages, Spokeo, TruePeopleSearch, FastPeopleSearch.
- Address-lookup sites let anyone type in an address and see who lives or lived there. Addresses.com and ClustrMaps are examples.
- Property-record sites show property details for an address. PropertyChecker, BlockShopper and Homes.com are in our directory.
Past addresses matter as much as the current one. A profile showing where you lived five years ago still connects your name to a place.
Step 1: find every listing
Search each site by your name and, where it allows reverse lookup, by your address. Try every address you have lived at, and common variations — with and without an apartment number, the full street type and the abbreviation.
Two ways to speed this up:
- Google's Results about you looks for Search results that show your home address. It only changes Google's results, not the sites, but the list it gives you shows which sites have a page with your address. See our guide to Results about you.
- The free kit at /scan/ builds search links for the most common people-search sites from your name, in your browser, and gives you a checklist. Your details stay on your device.
Save the URL of each listing you find. Many forms ask for it.
Step 2: send each site its opt-out request
Each site has its own process. Our guides record the opt-out page, the verification step and the known problems for each one:
- Addresses.com — part of the PeopleConnect group of sites; see the PeopleConnect network for which sites share its suppression system
- ClustrMaps
- TruePeopleSearch
- FastPeopleSearch
- Whitepages
- Spokeo
- PropertyChecker
- BlockShopper
- Homes.com
The full directory is at /sites/.
What forms commonly ask for:
- The listing URL, so the site knows which profile you mean.
- Details that match the listing exactly. Some sites look up your record from the details you type in. That's Them's form, for instance, requires your full name, street address, city, state, ZIP code, email and phone (checked 2026-10-06). If the address you enter does not match the way the listing shows it, the site may not find the record.
- An email address to send a confirmation link to.
The site may ask for the very address you want taken down, because it uses it to find the record. Give only what the form needs.
Step 3: where there is no form, write
For a site with no form, or one that points you to an email address, send a short written request. If your state has a consumer privacy law, cite it.
In California, the CCPA gives residents the right to ask a business to delete personal information it collected about them. The California Attorney General says businesses must respond within 45 calendar days and can extend that by another 45 if they tell you. The Attorney General also lists reasons a business may deny a deletion request, and one of them is that the information is "publicly available." Where a site's address data comes from public records, expect it may point to that exception. Many people-search sites run an opt-out process anyway, whatever your state.
The free kit writes these letters in your browser, citing the law for where you live, with an optional address field so the site can match your record. See also the CCPA deletion request template and state privacy laws with a right to delete.
Property records are different
Property-lookup sites republish property records. Where the record they draw on is a public record held by a government office, a request to the website cannot change it. You can ask a property site to stop showing your listing — our guides above cover the ones in our directory — but the underlying record stays where it is, and another site can republish it.
If you have a safety reason to keep your address private, some states run programs that give you a substitute address for public records. See address confidentiality programs. Those programs are run by states, not by us, and each has its own eligibility rules.
Step 4: ask Google to stop showing the page
While you wait for the sites, you can ask Google to stop showing results with your home address. Google's personal information policy lists "your address, phone number, or email" among the things it may remove from Search results, and Results about you handles the request. Google is explicit that this "can only remove things from Google Search results" — the page stays on the site. Doing both covers more than either one.
Step 5: check the live page
A confirmation email means a request was received. To know whether the listing is gone, open the listing URL again once the site says it has acted, and search the site by your address if it allows that. See how to check a removal worked.
If a site does not reply, see what to do if a data broker ignores you.
When you move
A move can create new listings: once a new address reaches the records people-search sites draw on, they can build a new profile from it, at a new URL. A suppressed listing for your old address does not cover a new one. After a move, search the main sites again. See why your information reappears.
A few practical points
- Every site needs its own request. Some share a suppression system; most do not.
- Every address needs checking. Old addresses often stay attached to your name.
- Keep a record. Note the site, date, URL and any reference number.
- Removal is not guaranteed. Some sites don't comply, and some point to the publicly-available exception.