Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Very locally in north-eastern and southern Venezuela (north-eastern Monagas south to Delta Amacuro, Amazonas), the Guianas, north-eastern Ecuador (Sucumbíos, northern Napo), north-eastern Peru (eastern Loreto) and central Brazil along middle Amazon Basin (Amazonas east to Pará and Amapá, south to northern Rondônia).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Yellow-crowned Elaenia (Myiopagis flavivertex) [XC689901]
by Peter Boesman from Igarap\u00e9 do Lim\u00e3o, Ilha do Curu\u00e1 ,Arquip\u00e9lago do Bailique, Macap\u00e1, Amap\u00e1, Brazil (song)
Yellow-crowned Elaenia (Myiopagis flavivertex) [XC413109]
by Jerome Fischer from Ca\u00f1o el guamo ,Cartagena del Chair\u00e1, Caquet\u00e1, Colombia (song)
Subspecies
Probably most closely related to Greenish Elaenia (Myiopagis viridicata).