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) [XC251170]
by John V. Moore from Sucumb\u00edos: 'La Selva Jungle Lodge', n bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (call)
Yellow-crowned Elaenia (Myiopagis flavivertex) [XC493814]
by Peter Boesman from Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Probably most closely related to Greenish Elaenia (Myiopagis viridicata).