Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, only found on the narrow coastal strip of the northern Yucatán Peninsula.

Its breeding range is even more restricted to a strip about one kilometre wide, edging the mangrove forests which fringe the coast.

[1] The Yucatan wren is usually seen in pairs or small family groups and forages among the foliage and on the ground.

They are built a few metres off the ground in coastal scrub and the borders of the black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) forest, which thrives along the region's coasts.

[1][3] The population of the Yucatan wren is believed to be stable, but its range is small, and the bird is threatened by habitat loss as the area in which it lives is developed for tourism.