UPDATED 7.40AM: A five-year-old girl who went missing from her Hamilton home overnight has been found safe and well.

Police say she was located this morning and is being reunited with her family.

"Police would like to thank everyone who reported possible sightings of the missing girl as well as those who expressed their concern and support for her family."

EARLIER:

A five-year-old girl has gone missing from her Hamilton home overnight.

Gloria Inoke went missing around 6.30pm on Tuesday.

She is believed to have walked off in the Ross Crescent, Fairfield area, northeast of central Hamilton.

She is described as Polynesian, olive-tanned skinned, with curly black-coloured hair.

'At the time she was last seen, Gloria was wearing a grey t-shirt over a pink t-shirt and had blue trousers on,” says police.

'Anyone who lives in Fairfield, particularly in the Ross Crescent, Holland Road or Heaphy Terrace areas, should thoroughly check their entire properties and surrounding areas for possible sightings.”

Waikato police Senior Sergeant Robbie Hermann says police, along with family and many residents, had searched the surrounding neighbourhoods and parks throughout the night.

There had been no sightings or evidence of Gloria.

'The search is ongoing today. Search and Rescue have been out overnight and will keep going this morning.

'We have had heaps of members of the public looking all over the place but there is no sign of her.”

At this stage there was no evidence of foul play, but police could not rule anything out until they find out what has happened to her, says Robbie.

"We ask that residents check around their own properties and report any sightings."

It appeared there had been some confusion among her parents as to who had Glory on Tuesday evening, he says.

"It looks like it was a couple of hours before she was reported missing - as soon as they realised she was missing it was reported but by then it was a few hours."

Any sightings or information on her whereabouts should be reported immediately to 111.

-Additional reporting from Stuff.co.nz