Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Kenya, northern and eastern Tanzania, south-eastern DRCongo, south-western Angola, southern and eastern Zambia, Malawi, western Mozambique, north-eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and northern South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga lowveld).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Purple Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens) [XC307240]
by jon pullen from Bushwillow Estate, Vaalkop Dam Nature Reserve, near Beestekraal, North West, South Africa (song)
Purple Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens) [XC462721]
by Niall Perrins from Parys, Northern Free State, Free State, South Africa (song)
Interbreeds with Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata) in north-eastern Tanzania and with Variable Indigobird (Vidua funerea) in south-eastern DRCongo.