A 15-year-old Philadelphia girl has been missing since Friday, September 4, 2026, when she left her home to attend school and never returned. Sanah Jordan was last seen around 8 a.m. on September 4, and Philadelphia police are now asking the public for help finding her.
According to the Philadelphia Police Department, Jordan is described as a Black female standing approximately 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing about 100 pounds, with brown hair that has some pink coloring. As Newport Dispatch reports, police say she left her residence that morning intending to go to school and did not come back.
The department’s official missing-persons bulletin lists Jordan as reported missing from the 4900 block of North 2nd Street, while noting she is known to frequent the 4900 block of North 7th Street. Her case has been assigned to the Northwest Detective Division, which operates out of the 35th Police District station at 5960 North Broad Street.
How to Report Information
Anyone with information on Jordan’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Northwest Detective Division at 215-686-3353 or call 911.
The available information does not specify whether a waiting period applied or when Jordan’s identifying details were entered into a statewide missing-persons system.
National Trends Around Missing Youth
Hoodline has also covered the search for missing Tacony teen Angelica Jimenez-Medina.
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the organization supported 32,167 missing children cases across the country in 2025 and resolved 29,013 of them. NCMEC data also shows that runaway incidents accounted for 92% of all missing children reports the organization received that year.
The article discusses demographic disparities in missing-person cases without specifying rates for different groups. Philadelphia police have posted information about Jordan’s case.
