Gambia and southern Senegal, south-western Mali and northern Guinea; and from southern Burkina Faso and northern parts of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin eastern in narrow band to west-central Sudan and northern Central African Republic, thence east to western Eritrea and western and northern Ethiopia and, in south, to north-eastern DRCongo, northern Uganda and western Kenya.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver (Plocepasser superciliosus) [XC425426]
by Peter Boesman from Kiang West, Lower River, Gambia (call, song)
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver (Plocepasser superciliosus) [XC536411]
by Peter Boesman from C51 below Kabarnet, Baringo County, Kenya (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Genus sometimes placed in sparrow family (Passeridae).
Proposed subspecies brunnescens (described from Bozoum, in north-western Central African Republic) appears to be inseparable from individuals in rest of species' range.