Deleting an organization account

You can delete your organization account at any time.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners can delete an organization.

In this article

About deletion of your organization account

Deleting your organization account removes all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests, and project or organization pages.

If the account namespace includes any packages or container images stored in a GitHub Packages registry, GitHub deletes the packages and container images when you delete your account. By deleting your account, you may break projects that depend on these packages and images.

You can also archive an organization, instead of deleting it. Archiving an organization will make it read-only. For more information, see Archiving an organization.

Backing up your organization content

Before you delete your organization, make sure you have a copy of all repositories, wikis, issues, and projects from the account.

Note

If necessary, a site administrator for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance may be able to partially restore a deleted organization. For more information, see Restoring a deleted organization.

Deleting your organization account

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations**.
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  3. In the "Danger zone" section, click Delete this organization.
  4. Read the warning. If you want to proceed, type the organization's name, then click Cancel plan and delete the organization.