This mouse is recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India. In Coorg, specimens were captured in a banana plantation and nests were found in one patch of a coffee estate.
The specimens identified as V. nilagirica in Coorg had longer tails and greyish-white underparts than the V. oleracea specimens the authors examined.
Individuals identified as this species were captured in a banana plantation in Coorg. At Haleri Estate in northern Coorg, 20 nests were found in one patch of coffee plantation at about 1,000 m. The authors judged them to have been used during the preceding October–March breeding and development period and then abandoned.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.