The phrase "affluent minority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small, wealthy segment of a population that has significant economic resources compared to the majority.
Example: "The affluent minority in the city often have access to exclusive services and amenities that are not available to the general public."
Alternatives: "wealthy subset" or "prosperous group".
The celebrated Golden Quadrilateral should have been a high-speed railroad, not a superhighway for an affluent minority.
Hong Kong and Macau remain the biggest holiday destinations for Chinese tourists, but Europe is popular among an affluent minority.
But, while an affluent minority enjoyed these fruits of globalization and modernity, the poor continued to experience life much as they had in previous decades.
Critics responded that most women had no choice but to work and that only a small affluent minority could chose not to.
The party attracts support from more affluent minority groups, but it struggles to cast off negative associations with racist pronouncements such as Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech.
President George W. Bush cut taxes in the service of his party's ideology, not in response to a groundswell of popular demand — and the bulk of the cuts went to a small, affluent minority.
Its achievement gap between largely affluent whites and less affluent minorities, who make up a majority of the district, remains stubbornly wide.
While technology of this type will be useful for everyone, it will be especially useful to less-affluent minorities where few people have knowledgeable and trustworthy contacts such as lawyers, accountants, financial advisors and friends in the financial services industry who can steer them in the right direction.
Central, many said, is now two schools in one: a poor, demoralized black majority and a high-achieving, affluent white minority.
It had an affluent white minority corralled in leafy north-western DC, while the rest of the city was mostly rundown and, the further south and east you went, frequently dangerous.
In this endeavor, Mr. Williams has assiduously avoided what in the Barry era came to be known as "the race card" -- harvesting the vote of the divided district's black working-class majority by playing off the affluent white minority.
