[2] It is found in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe where it lives among rocks in upland areas.

The underparts are white or cream tinted with grey, and there is a sharp line demarcating the junction between the dorsal and ventral colouring.

Its range extends through southern Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, central Mozambique, eastern Botswana, northeastern South Africa and northwestern Eswatini,[1] mostly at altitudes above 600 m (2,000 ft).

[3] It has been found in scrubby thickets in a dried up stream bed in Mozambique, and in caves in South Africa.

[3] The rock dormouse lives in cracks and crevices in rocky places, its cranium being flattened to enable it to pass through narrow apertures.